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Politics : The Truth About Islam -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FJB who wrote (9296)	8/1/2007 3:19:33 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

Liberals are so full of it

To: FJB who wrote (9296)	8/1/2007 5:57:49 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Behind the Arab street's anti-American facade The Seattle Times ^ \| July 31, 2007 \| Hussain Abdul-Hussain seattletimes.nwsource.com KAMAL is my Syrian cousin who lives in Damascus. He is a pious Muslim who keeps a low profile. When I decided to Google his name, I was surprised to see that he had made a statement in one of the newspapers denouncing the American war in Iraq and describing the U.S. as a bully. But I know Kamal, and I know that he admires the West. During our chitchats, his favorite description of the social and economic situation in Syria is "backwardness." He tells me that he would love to move to a "civilized" country where people stand in a queue, where drivers follow the law, and where everyone is "respected" and everything is "clean." Kamal's statement in the newspaper does not reflect his thought. Rather, it reflects the double-faced character that most of the Arabs and Muslims have to put up, fearing the tyranny they live under. During my years as a reporter in Beirut, whenever I covered an anti-U.S. protest, I saw most of the protesters trying to hide their faces from cameras. Ask any of them about the reason for doing so, and they will tell you that they do not want to jeopardize getting a visa to the U.S. or to other Western countries. (Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ....