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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (1232)	9/20/2006 12:49:45 PM
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equal time for the fashion forward islamist.... jelbab.com

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (1232)	9/20/2006 2:28:01 PM
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The Pope & Hitler's racism Kuwait Times ^ \| 09-20-2006 \| Dr Sami Alrabaa kuwaittimes.net For the Kuwaiti Association of Social Reform (an Islamist organisation), Ahmed Mohammed Al- Fahd, Khaled Al-Sultan, and Ayed Al-Mannae (Al-Watan, Sept 18), the statement of Pope Benedict XVI distancing himself from the medieval quote he cited in Germany is not enough. It seems that we Arabs have a special way reading things. We understand what we want to understand, not what people say or what the text says. It is too tedious for us to exactly check what people say. We reproduce interpretations and regard them as facts because they sound convenient to our line of thinking. Unfortunately, the pope cited an anti-Islam Middle Ages emperor in a historical context. Later, the Vatican as well as the pope distanced themselves from the quote. That means, they do not share with the emperor what he said about Islam. If I cite Hitler saying, "All Jews must be exterminated," in a certain discussion, it does not mean, I share Hitler's racist statement. We apologise when we say something we regret later or when we support an atrocious quote. The pope neither denigrated Islam nor supported what he quoted. On the contrary, he distanced himself of it. Another Crusade against Islam Ali Fahd Al-Ajmi concludes in Al-Watan (Sept 18), the non-Muslim world "hates" Islam and Muslims. The West is waging another "crusade" using other weapons: cartoons and media campaigns. Why would the world hate us? Is it because we are following the teaching of Islam and its Prophet (PBUH) and building better societies? Is it because we are competing with the rest of the world in terms of technology, prosperity, and human rights? They hate us because most terrorists are Muslims, terrorising the world. They hate us because we are killing innocent people in the name of Islam. They hate us because we are intolerant and undemocratic. They hate us because we protest like savage animals; burning embassies and churches. They surely do not hate us just because we are Muslims. As ordinary Muslims, we do not pose any threat to anybody and hence nobody hates us. Visa ordeal Nabeel Al-Fadhel writes in Al-Watan (Sept 18), before fundamentalist Muslims took over in the Muslim world, Kuwaitis used to get their visas very easily. At Heathrow Airport they received a six-month visa. Nowadays, it is an ordeal for Arabs and Muslims to get a visa to the West. Al-Fadhel adds, everything in Kuwait is given a Muslim name; banks, companies, streets, etc. All of sudden we have discovered Islam. He wonders if this is religiosity or politics. Catastrophes and hate Aziza Al-Mufarrej compares us to them in Al-Watan (Sept 18). She notes, most of world bloody news and human catastrophes occur in the Arab world: 30 Yemenis die in a stampede. 765 Jordanians die of poisoned Shawarma meat. Tens of innocent Iraqis are daily killed. Tens of Egyptians die in train accidents. Similar numbers die in Darfur. Elsewhere in the world, people compete democratically and peacefully for the best. People work hard and conscientiously. People, big and small abide by the law and rules. How about us? We sit there, pathetically and lament: They hate us! The question is, has the world changed, or have we changed? Actually, the world has not changed vis a vis our world. Paradoxically, however, our Muslim world has changed and has not changed at the same time. It has become more radical. That is a big change, a bad one. Life in the Arab world is moving from miserable to more miserable. Has the Arab world changed to the better, socio-economically? No. No improvement has been registered on any front. The machine of development is motionless.