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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Garden Rose who wrote (227032)4/13/2007 7:22:55 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Michael you said "Israel is a Jewish state in the same way that SA and Syria are arab states."

Not so Michael, for the comparison to be correct, the SA and Syria would have to refer to their identity as an Islamist(religious connotation) state, and they do not refer to themselves as such. Israel is the only state which bases its identity on religion with the exception of Iran, which calls itself the "Islamic" Republic of Iran. That's the right comparison.

So few words, so much ignorance.

1) Arab states call themselves proudly "Arab states" every single day. Arab is a linguistic and cultural designation, not regligious though in the current climate of growing Islamism it is becoming more and more religious.

2) Go learn something, anything about Saudi Arabia. They absolutely do id themselves as THE religious Wahabbi kingom, the keepers of the one true sort of Islam, as well as the two holy cities.

3) Jewish is an ethnic identification, not a just religious one. 80% of Jewish Israelis self-identify as secular. Iran is a theocracy. Israel is a liberal democracy. It is a common misperception of Americans to think that anything to do with a religion can have nothing to do with ethnicity or nationality. Not so.
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