Rambi,
The problem is that the Arab media is notoriously inaccurate, and that is putting it mildly. Good grief, I recall the destruction of the mosque, the millions of dead at Jenin, and any number of other exaggerations.
So, yes, we should listen to opinions, but so many from the ME are based on fantasy. It's one of their basic problems. I have no desire to hear endless drivel about how the evil Joooos, apes and pigs every last one of them, are the source of their problems; how it's martyrdom instead of murder to have children blow themselves up so that innocent civilians are killed; how women are inferior; how Americans are faking 9/11, etc.
Take a look at some of this crazy stuff:
adl.org
memri.org
memri.org
I have no use for those opinions. They're insane. And that, unfortunately, is what constitutes much of what is being expressed in the ME. The thoughtful voices are being drowned out.
I wonder sometimes why we bother. It must be the oil. |
