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The problem: Arab culture
Yaron London
Published: 09.08.11, 18:44
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1. Nothing is more important today than helping Somalia.
Salma ,   Palestine   (08.09.11)
not even Palestine. it is everybody's responsibility to help Somalis , this is a human responsibility. sadly the Arab and Muslim world failed to salvage Somalia from the ashes. Somali people will not forgive both Somali delegates as well as their Arab brothers in this failure. I indeed feel ashamed. Yaron London, the problem is not Arab culture, the problem is in people who think they are agents of God on earth, i can say to them not in the name of Islam , not in my name.
2. somalia and arab culture @1 salma:
steve ,   usa   (08.09.11)
Actually there is a lot of history to suggest it is Arab culture. When I read Into Africa, the story of Stanley hunt for Livingstone I was amazed about his historical account of Arab treatment of Africans. 150 years+ later it's the same treatment. That strongly suggests it's arab culture not islamist adventurism
3. I agree with Salma!
Andrew ,   USA   (08.09.11)
I've never agreed with Salma before! A first!
4. Yaron's Quandry
Joe ,   Israel   (08.09.11)
The answer may be found in "Dream Castles of the Arabs" by Fouad Adjami, John Hopkins University
5. #1 I fully agree with you, Salma
Yafa ,   Ramallah   (08.09.11)
that's why lots of arab should learn from westerns instead of cursing them.
6. To: No. 3
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (08.09.11)
It's an Arab and an African problem; let them handle it. No shortage of hungry people in the United States; shouldn't we worry about them first? Do you remember what happened the last time the United States tried to fix things in Somalia? Some countries are simply beyond help.
7. Salma, the world wants to help.
noa ,   israel   (08.09.11)
Extremist Islamic groups are blocking that aid.
8. The apple doesnt usually fall far from the tree
Jae ,   Israel   (08.09.11)
100's of 1000s murdered between arabs, you think Jews make them less inclined? Culture is very much domination-submission, the rest is commentary. witness the families, the the laws against women, the conquest of 8000 miles of land from indonesia to south of spain...dominate and subjugate Jews, Kurds, berbers, black africans, assyrians, pheonicians, christians, zoroastryians, bahai, druze, etc
9. Yes, let us focus on and count the faults in Arab culture...
seadog1946 ,   Arthur Kill, NJ   (08.09.11)
which numeral system shall we use... the Hebrew or the Hindu/Arabic?
10. For our professional "refugee"
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (08.10.11)
So what are you willing to do? They are Islamic militants that are preventing the aid. Are you willing to give up some of your aid? You get more than all the other real refugees in the world combined. Whenever there is a disaster we can be sure of one thing. The Arab countries will do little to nothing to help those in trouble.
11. Andrew #3: Why do you agree?
Steve   (08.10.11)
London wrote: "Very little food makes in to the hungry mouths. Wide areas are controlled by armed organizations whose leaders are affiliated with Islamic Jihad. They love God. Their love for Allah is so great that they banned international aid organizations from providing food to the hundreds of thousands of refugees, who are pouring into neighboring countries – Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The problem IS Arab culture whose God commands them to hate. Allah is not a God of justice, compassion or mercy, notwithstanding what Bush and Obama tell us. Allah is only merciful to the Muslim believer. Islam had its birth in Arabia in the seventh century. That is why the Jews (we are non Arabs and non-Muslims) will never be anything but hated and despised by her "neighbors." Be thankful we are not as helpless today as we were in Germany and Europe in the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties. Otherwise we would suffer a similar fate, at the hands of Salma and her Arab brethren, that non-Arab and non-Muslim Somalis suffer.
12. Whats new - look at Arab donation for disasters
Ron ,   Melbourne, Australia   (08.10.11)
Just looking at what Arab Countries give as to natural disasters, charities ,etc to other Arab countries would send a shiver down any descent person spine. e.g. When tunami happened in the Indian ocean The Australian Government Gave over US$1B to Indonesia for relief efforts - What did the Saudi Government give US$30Million - I guess they were overly committed with regards to funding the various religious schools teaching hate and funding racist books to teach in Europe and US Saudi funded schools.....
13. #1 Salma
Erudite ,   Australia   (08.10.11)
"I can say to them not in the name of Islam not in my name" Maybe not in your name Salma, But Islam is the game name. Ipso facto
14. Arabs don't care about the muslims on the African continent
Harry Wright ,   UK   (08.10.11)
Neither do they care about fellow muslims in the ME. They are greedy and selfish, caring only about grabbing something for nothing and amassing personal wealth. They know that the bleeding heart westerners will always cough up money and food aid so why should they bother about donations except for a token offering! The Somalian muslim leaders banned international aid organizations from providing food for love of Allah, yes, so that the starving muslims will pour into Christian countries, remain there and propagate the faith. It all contributes to the spread of Islam - mass migration through starvation. That is what it is. Easy.
15. Oil-rich Arabs only use their money to spread Islam and
terrorism   (08.10.11)
while Western countries have to give help and feed all Arabs who dont' want to work hard and feed themselves or dont' want to ask for help from their own rich brothers. U.S and Europe feed Palestinians so that they can have minimum 8 children each and two wifes, U.S gives finanicial help to oil-rich Egypt, and Jordan and Bahrain and Saudi Arabia earns about 30 billion dollars every years just from the money that Moslems from around the world give them for pilgrimage to Mecca.. Not only Moslems dont' ask Saudi Arabia to help them when they are in need, they dont' even expect Saudi Arabia to use pilgrims money to do some good for the Moslem world. They dont' have to worry. American and European hard working tax payers are there to feed every Moslem in the world while they use their own oil money for spreading Islam and terrorism in the world.
16. This culture is the reason why Arabs can't accept Israel
Vlad   (08.10.11)
Arab culture is unique in its culture of honor. Women are killed for sleeping with a man who is not her husband, or even looking at him. To Arabs, nothing is more important than honor. And the Arabs see their failure to eliminate Israel as a major dishonor, and the need to eliminate Israel as a religious duty to restore to Islam a land that is part of Dar ul-Islam, places the Muslims have or currently ruled.
17. Scroll Down
Shalom ,   Israel   (08.10.11)
Scroll down and read "Gaza-5 star hotel amid poverty" for a window into Arab mentality. The authors, the Associated Press, give us a glimpse onto the mindset and priorities of the rulers of Gaza, best described as grotesque.
18. "to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons."
mary of Bethany ,   singapore   (08.10.11)
Golda Meir’s humane words: “When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons. But it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.” achingly beautiful! the Jewish religion is a celebration of life, while the koran's preach a celebration of death; death to infidels and martyrdom by all means to dominate the world. this comes from a Jewish mouth, not from an English's, Chinese's, nor an Indian's, less and not possible from a muslim's mouth. even the arab world everywhere is exploiting the famous "palestinians plight" as the reasons/inspiration of all their riots, goals. but do they really love palestinians that much? nope, quoting "gazans plight" is just an over-abused excuse for indulging in crimes against the west and anyone not muslims. mark my words, if ever "peace" comes to palestinians, the arabs will fight and kill themselves, hamas and fatah will use the left-over bombs (for the Jews) to kill each other. arab never has "spring", it just an "Age-old Arab Winter"!
19. "Arab culture"
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (08.10.11)
Anyone see the funny in that?
20. Only Africa? What about what Assad is doing to his people?
Frauss ,   Jerusalem   (08.10.11)
21. Poor Mr. London
Reuven Brauner ,   Raanana, Israel   (08.10.11)
"For the sake of discussion with myself, I forgive them for their hostility to Jews," That they are hostile to Jews is forgiveable. But, that they are hostile to their own people is unforgiveable??? Mr. London - you're reasoning and attitude is not only unforgiveable, it is also despicable and anti-Semitic.
22. sarah b.
avramele   (08.10.11)
you are an extreme rightist and I am not. I accept that. But to send mocking and insensitive comments while children are dying is beyond my comprehension. lo ta'amode al dam reyechah! do not stand idly while your neighbor or a fellow human being bleeds.
23. Reuven #21: You make a good point
Steve   (08.10.11)
Former Prime Minister Golda Meir is reputed to have said to president Anwar Sadat: "We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours." Daniel Gordis ("Saving Israel") wrote: "...there is something....perverse about Golda's possibly apocryphal remark, and something even more disturbing about the fact that it has been lauded and cited thousands of times across the Jewish world."
24. Pity that Mohammed was an Arab
Ian ,   Newcastle upon Tyne   (08.10.11)
Islam shares many of the positive attributes of other religions but is negatively overlaid with medieval Arab culture.That is simply because it was the culture of Mohammed. How different the world might have been if Mohammed had been from a place with a culture that respected human rights,didn't oppress women,didn't see plundering and murder as an acceptable life style and understood truthfulness. Personally,rather than referring to 'Islam',I prefer to use the term that was often used a few decades ago:'Mohammedan religion'.This has the advantage of placing the blame where it really belongs rather than on the All Mighty. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!
25. Take US aid to Israel, and give it to
Lars ,   USA   (08.10.11)
Somalia. No net effect to the US. Problem solved. Then next year we can give that aid to New Orleans, which still isn't rebuilt. Yes. We should use it at home.
26. #22 stop trying to ruin sarah's reputation , she did not wri
rachel ,   usa   (08.10.11)
write these posts . Your not fooling anyone !
27.  to Y-aron
suhayla ,   jerusalem   (08.10.11)
i think you can do something to so-malia but not to arab culture but as you can not do anything ..i think youknow better about thousands things than arab culture ..please write about any of these thousands i know little about anything but arab culture is not what you want to distripute rich and poor and war is not a culture it is becouse rich is getting richer and poor is getting poorer and becouse there are people like eviles sure they are not these poor children but the policy as world policy which israil started to loose .. thank you to write about the weak people in somalia i pray for them
28. to 24
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in the begining when kuran was descended on the heart of mohammad .some rich and great people from mecca and madena were so angry .. why it was to mohammad the poor man .. why it was not to one of us the greate and rich ... so they were great only in their eyes but infedels in the eyes of god
29. #1 Salma -- MANY things are more important than "Palestine"
Scott ,   USA   (08.11.11)
In no particular order: Africa Civil Wars, AIDS epidemic, Burma, Cuba, Tibet, Chechenya, Kurdestan, Cyprus, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, South Sudan, Yemen... Palestinians are doing just fine sponging off Israel and the international community. Shut up. build something. Make something. Export. Nobody's stopping you.
30. The correct term is the "Semites culture"
Persian CAT   (08.11.11)
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