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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45034)	11/22/2003 10:14:09 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 50167

When an Arab youth wakes up with a Proctor & Gamble mouthwash, wears Gap jeans, works on a Cisco based router whilst sipping Starbucks coffee then lashes out at America while gulping down a McDonalds burger. The envy towards America, for it’s accomplishment through hard work freedoms, is nothing more than passive-aggressive aggression egged on by the sense of abject failure and underachievement of the Arab people. No-one's stopping anyone over there from opening a franchise of McFalaffel eateries or Mecca Colas or a string of Saladin the Great Coffee houses or Nightengale tooth polish. maybe more grecian-style statues of naked men and women in all their splendor adorning the plazas by the fountains would also help foster a rennaisance too in the Arab/Islamic world ? Maybe even an olympic team or two including woman competing? Perhaps little Manikin Pis statue relieving himself into the pool would perhaps lighten things up a bit ? Where are the Mona Lisa's? These things seemed to work for europe at the start of the 15th century when they rediscovered the wonderful pagan ideas of beauty art and having fun in life . <G> Go naked Pakistan! ;-))

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45034)	11/22/2003 10:19:53 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

"Waiting for Allah" That's a great piece...thanks for posting . Billions upon Billions of oil money ....and still the Palestinians have no home . Hard to imagine the Arab street conveniently missing that .<g> (I think Allah must be busy somewhere else in the galaxy temporarily ...to have also have missed that one.) It's almost a farce ...no it is totally a farce.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45034)	11/22/2003 9:38:39 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

<History has put this burden on a Texan who looked quite ordinary and for the left even stupid but he has taken this burden better than many a Sagittarius! > I just came back from a dinner that was hosted in my honour by my friends who had a day before yesterday attended the march against Bush in London. The general description of curriculum vitae of these friends would give an indication of what this rainbow coalition against US consist of. First of all, my friends started with spare ribs and Scottish Beef with lard to commence the dinner. These champions of Islam conveniently forgot that pork is the most repugnant of the meats, denounced by the Prophet. So I could make it out that the demonstrations were not about Crusade against Islam but most people had their own agenda against US. The US breeds a lot of contempt out of its universal success. The Declaration of Rights and US Constitution may very well become a way of life for the rest of humanity. And I can imagine that some of these demonstrators have deep seated issues which go as far as the very basis of American society existence. Next, the meal was accompanied with champagne and Chateau Neuf de Pape but despite the un Islamic habits, the venom against US was unyielding. The indication was not about Islam but hatred of American ideals and principles. According to them, the march of these 90000 people was a great success. But who were the constituents of this march? People who are unable to find the lost glory of Islam are at the fore front of the march. Vanessa Redgrave, Mo Mowlam and others have become naive spokespeople of fringe elements and rainbow coalitions of Left and Islamic militants. These very Islamic militants have no regard for Greeens when it comes down to blowing them with bombs but conveniently they are strange bed fellows when it comes to opposing the US. The marches in London were spearheaded by the left, the extreme fringe of Labour Party; the Green and the Islamic Militant Extremists. These people only had one common interest: unique hatred of USA and Jews. Now this unique hatred of a nation and a race is not acceptable and the root cause of most of the evil is adamant attitude and extremism. It is strange to see that these extremists accord all their hatred towards nations who have democracy and freedom of expression as part of life. Bush was being condemned as a man who stole the elections but 50 percent of these demonstrators came from countries like Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Libya and other Muslim Lands, where they could not dare demonstrate in this fashion and no facility of Democratic elections. They would be hanged by their tongues for raising such slogans. The demonstrators in London formed a rainbow coalition that left love to put together that coalition includes people who believe in freedom of sexual orientation, freedom of drug usage, freedom of expression as far as the expression only concerns Islam and will of Allah. And this coalition has found George Galloway, Vanessa Redgrave and Mo Mowlam type of leftist who think that expressing a concern for safety of tyrannical regime of Saddam Hussein is a service of humanity. The contradictory nature of this demonstration could have been more highlighted by the fact that expression of freedom in Iraq and in Saudi Arabia was apparent by a section of demonstrator who represented the free Saudi and Iraqi voice. These factions could not have existed with out the global freedom of expression that America spearheads.