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To: JohnM who wrote (98685)5/20/2003 10:17:06 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Changing the subject again, are you? The quote you took from my post was not about Lewis but about your own observation, the one in which you explicitly linked your term, "the Arab world" to the observations about the links with the Nazis

No dice, John. The subject was Lewis' assertion that Arab nationalist movements were heavily influenced by the Nazis and Beeman's calling this assertion a calumny. I cited evidence of Nazi influence in Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Iraq, which certainly covers the major population centers of the Arab world. I have also repeatedly cited Nazi-derived propaganda in Syrian, Egyptian and Saudi papers. If you want to throw up your hands in horror because I didn't prove that the Nazis also influenced ibn Saud or the Emir of Kuwait, so that it's an overgeneralization to talk about Nazi influence on the "Arab world", be my guest. It's still a distraction from the point under discussion, and I suspect that the readers of this thread recognize it as one.



To: JohnM who wrote (98685)5/21/2003 8:30:16 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
As for the argument about "Arab mindsets", I simply don't buy it.

Given all the other well established and deep seated cultural differences there are among different peoples, I'd say that it would be highly unlikely that there were not an identifiable "Arab mindset". Ignoring this in any analysis of what has taken place is simple political correctness and is no better than using it as a catchall substitute for real thinking.