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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (238429)	7/31/2007 5:55:31 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Compromise is almost synonymous with making a pact with the devil to many Arabs. It’s a stereo type but the attitude is very common. There is an ancient pre-Islam story that describes Arab character as one in which being wrong is never an option. Story Once two men were traveling and happened upon a herd of sheep. The first man said to the second, a ewe just told me her lamb was killed on this spot one year ago. The second man told him he was crazy if he believed he could talk to sheep. First man: Let us ask the Sheppard. Sheppard: Yes, I do recall a lamb being killed on this spot by a wolf when we passed through here a year ago. Second man: Coincidence. So they continued until they came to an oasis where a table was prepared with two glasses of wine. First man: A crow sitting in the tree just told me this wine is poisoned. Second man (laughing out loud): Now you prove how crazy you are if you think crows talk to you. The desert heat must have gotten to you. Hahahahaha… First man: I will prove to you I am right. So, he drank the wine and died on the spot. Second man: Wow! Poor fellow was suffering from sun stroke and died of a heart attack. I was talking to an Arab once who was trying to understand Americans better. He asked, “why do you people say ‘maybe’ so often? Something is either true or it is not.”