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Prepare for darker Mideast
Giulio Meotti
Published: 22.12.11, 23:11
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1. leftists to the rescue
don't worry   (12.23.11)
2. so decorate the buses with women 1st
like in israel   (12.23.11)
3. Suerly it's time for some serious, psyche-altering high-tech
tom ,   tel aviv   (12.23.11)
genetic engineering on the Human Soul. The unseen Daddy in the Sky has done a rather poor job, so it is now up to us to improve on that. To imagine that these dark forces are gaining on us in the 21-st Century clearly points to some basic design flaw in the Human DNA. That's a task worthy us, Jews. We will be the true Saviours. Amen and may the Merciful One expire in the Arabian Desert....
4. It will be hell for men too
John ,   NZ   (12.23.11)
5. "hell for women"....
eporue ,   europe   (12.23.11)
...what religion proposes equal rights for women ? christianity DEFINITELY NOT ! ...that today the women in the western world are not oppressed is solely due to their "freedom fighters" and brave resistance of the male and mostly religious oppression... ...dont you blame islam for what you would practise too - if you could...
6. Jewish Unity
Zivron   (12.23.11)
If the Jews are so evil why have they have created so many medical and technolical life saving miracles .The islamists are the hardening of pharoughs heart .
7. Pharoahs heart
Nokeam   (12.23.11)
Pharoahs heart has been hardened in Egypt and this time many support Pharoah by choice. This bodes badly for Egypt unless they leave the Jewish State alone and keep out of the small Jewish inheritance.
8. Enough is enough
Ali ,   Norway   (12.23.11)
Stop talking as the god`s special envoy to the earth from one side and the as the victim who is suffering from the ignorant muslims from the side
9. #8 Ali
Erdite ,   Australia   (12.23.11)
So what are you going to do. Shout Allah Akabar pull the cord kill yourself take a few infadels and settle down with 72 fat hairy virgins? {Surely all the good ones are gone by now}
10. @8,WE are God's special envoy !
Trumpeldor   (12.23.11)
11. Islamism = Self Destruction
Abdel Karim Salim ,   Jerusalem   (12.23.11)
I doubt those Islamists would pose any serious,substantial threat to anybody - except to themselves ! What is so Islamist about the Islamists of Tunisia who,upon winning the elections, made it clear they will not ban alcohol and will not stop tourists from going to the beaches in bikinies ? The same applies to Islamists of Morocco who said they will not interfere in the private lives of people. And Egyptian Islamists hastily reassured everybody that nobody has to worry because of them,and that the 1979 Camp David treaty with Israel still holds ! I can see their Islamism is only superficial and with no substance simply because , much like Marxism, it is quite impractical and unfeasible ! Everything about their Islamic creed seems nice as long as it is in theory , but in practice it will prove a dismal failure since Islam itself was not quite practiced in the life of Mohamed himself ! As for Qutub himself I can not but scoff sarcastically at him for criticizing the American lovers of jazz music and for calling them"Negroes" while he himself had a dusky skin ! Furthermore, if the " West " were indeed a " rubbish heap ",as he claimed, it- The West - would not have been able to achieve impressive technological and scientific feats such as obtaining nuclear energy and making space explorations! As for sexism I believe it is an indispensable personal freedom of the individual which can not be regulated by outside elements…!
12. by your logic,
observer ,   Egypt   (12.23.11)
there are 1.5 billion Islamists all over the world.
13. PROPHECIES (?)
David ,   New York, NY   (12.23.11)
If I've followed the logic of our "sooth-sayer for a day," the Middle-East will be a paradise for Muslim men because it will be following Qutb's ideology which parallels Adolph Hitler's. Thus running parallel with Germany under Hiter, millions of Muslim men will be killed and maimed in futile, hopeless wars of aggression, all major Arab cities will be fire-bombed to rubble, their industries destroyed, their countries eventually occupied by the winning side and broken into "zones." If I were sadistic, Meotti, I would say, "from your mouth to God's ears." But let's just say that your grades on the subject "Modern European History,": if you ever studied the subject, must have been between D- to F (fail). Get a new crystal ball or more realistically, STUDY SOME HISTORY.
14. new paradise for moslem males
moron ,   galut   (12.23.11)
just like nation of islam in chicago--democrat too
15. There were 3 back to the future movies
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (12.23.11)
This, however is geting rather ridiculous,the Muslim countries are going back to the 7th Century
16. What about Christians?
Kurt J. ,   Chico, CA   (12.23.11)
Yes the ME will be bad for Jews and women, but don't forget Christians who are undergoing extreme persecution in these "Arab Spring" countries RIGHT NOW.
17. Nice article, but scary at tehe same time
Iraniuan Jew ,   LA   (12.23.11)
Wow! I like this article. It has harsh truth, but reality is painful. We will have to at one point fight Egypt again. They Islamist will not sit back and let the army handle the country. God help us all.
18. Oppression in Religeons
Salim ,   Palestine   (12.23.11)
Of all religeons; Judaism might be the most oppressive to women!!!! just look at whats happening in the ultra orthodox cmmunities in Israel today!
19. What's good for women is good for men.
nibor ,   israel   (12.23.11)
What could be better than a partnership between two sincere, vibrant, loving people? Suppression ain't good for anyone at all. The world itself has gone to a very bad place, with murders and child molestation, wife beating and cheating. Going back to Sharyia Law, or even Halacha, aint gonna help either.
20. meotti
gianni ,   uk   (12.23.11)
This is one seriously deranged wop.
21. Wonderful article
Daniel Gorhi ,   Prague   (12.23.11)
22. mini-skirts? lol
HumHum   (12.23.11)
I stopped reading after moron meotti used the highest percentage of mini-skirts as his example of secularism and progress in Tunisia. Did you actually look up the highest percentage? Maybe you should deal with your own sexual frustration before writing about Qutb's.
23. Tom # 3
Eaglebeak ,   Left Coast, USA   (12.23.11)
Be careful Tom, Daddy may take away the keys to your car.
24. eporue # 5
Eagelbeak ,   Left Coast, USA   (12.23.11)
So, under Islam how do "freedom fighters" and their brave resistance to male and religious oppression make out? Islam much like your post is a bunch of crap. The proof is in the pudding. The west = freedom and Islam = oppression. Even men are not free under Islam. As a Christian or Jew a person could make a cartoon of Jesus or Moses or name a teddy bear after them. They are free to speak critically of their religion or leave their faith. Muslims can do none of those things. They are slaves to their religion. It does not free them.
25. 22#
Rabbanit Dina ,   Ny   (12.23.11)
You are so naïf
26. #17 You should know this already
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (12.23.11)
Iran at one time had a Jewish population of 125.000, it's down to 25,000
27. #5 eporue, worry about your Muslim's
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (12.23.11)
Another crappy day for Egyptian women,who can be kicked out & divorced by the men saying "It divorce thee" a dog in Egypt has more rights than women Nice photo in today's papers, showing a rallye of thousands of women demonstrating because they had been pulled by the hair, stripped and beaten for protesting their miserable existence Enjoy the photo, you turd http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=250687
28. #18 Salim, return to earth
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (12.23.11)
Egyptian women are protesting because their own government is beating them for protesting in the first place, they're being dragged by their hair, stripped of the clothing and being beaten It's in today's news, try reading some, at what is happening to women in Egypt today & every day Saudi Arabia, women aren't allowed to drive, or to go out of their home with a male escort from their own family You're so full of crap,it's laughable
29. @ #18
John ,   Gaithersburg USA   (12.23.11)
As a Jew I realize there are sects within Judaism that treat women as nothing more than chattel. As a Jew I can be critical of these sects without having to fear for my life. Now you as a Muslim, I suggest you think about how far you would get if you are openly critical of anything within Islam.
30. Please chill out: do you really care?
Tom ,   USA   (12.23.11)
You can safely drop your Western messianic obsession with "saving" the "savages" and wanting to "guide them to the right path". Islam is a form of governance, detached from the evolutionary process, a sort of "time warp". Just stay clear from it and get it as far away from us as possible. They are over one billion of them: nothing at all you can do about them: they should sort out things among themselves. I am E. European, we lived under Communist oppression for very long time. The West was whining, blabbering --it did nothing for us, instead it did business with their hated Bolsheviks. What happened was that us, we rebelled and after bloody fights we destroyed the Commies at Budapest, Warsaw, Prague, Bucharest.... Not a single Western nation gave us any help. Just blabbering like now - yet they brag about winning the cold war. They didn't do squat, only speeches. If Islamic countries want to be free then do it on your own: if Obamao, Sarko, Cameron or NATO get involved you're lost.
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