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To: D. Long who wrote (43836)9/14/2002 1:07:00 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Respond to of 281500
 
The Arabs, on the other hand, share a great deal of our history and traditions and myths.

The Arabs also share an egalitarian tradition of the Bedouin. As each tribesman can have audience with the sheikh, so each Muslim stands alone before Allah. In this Islam is more like Judaism than Christianity, with its church hierarchies.

But, on the other hand, the Arab social structures of family and clan and tribe are extremely hierarchical.



To: D. Long who wrote (43836)9/15/2002 11:47:41 AM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
The fly in the ointment as respoects the ME is that Japan was a homogenous society at the end of WWII. There were no clan, religious, or tribal divisions like those we see in the ME. Those divisions will make it exceedingly difficult to have democracy succeed.

Don't misunderstand, I'd like to see democracy succeed. I just don't think the analogy to Japan at the end of the war is accurate.


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