Fun Facts: El Baradei's Wife A Cousin To Head Of Iranian Militant Clerics Association

Hmmmm.

Goodbye to all that...          h/t Minicapt

>>  Posted by Blazing Cat Fur at 12:09 PM |  3 comments  |  link to this post |  send email  | 
Melykin  – (6:19 PM)  

"If you believe that al-Baradei, with no real political experience or any organized movement behind him, can dominate the Muslim Brotherhood, I have a bridge over the Nile I'll sell you."
Barry Rubin



Rubin seems to have a good handle on what is happening in Egypt. I'd never heard of him until my sister (who sometimes posts here as "Anne") sent me a link to his blog the other day.

I also found this: Canada: A Case Study on Attitudes Towards Middle East Issues.

His description of Canadian people in the "Israel Apartheid Week" events seems dead on:

"...one of the ironies visible here is to what extent students are nowadays victims of the bad education they got from radical professors in which a knowledge of facts, as well as following logical processes and constructing rational arguments, is replaced by a very small number of slogans and epithets. That is also precisely why they have turned to intimidation—a measure of their extremist goals and weakness on talking about the substance of issues.

Given their single-minded and strident anti-Israel emphasis, the most vocal elements in the anti-Israel movement—especially but not exclusively the IAW--is not concerned with human rights’ or social justice but merely a hate-Israel movement based on hypocrisy, thinly veiled antisemitism, and hysteria."

Melykin  – (6:21 PM)  

Sorry, the second link I posted above doesn't seem to work. Try this:

Canada: A case study on attitudes towards middle east issues

Blazing Cat Fur  – (6:31 PM)  

Thanks Melykin, I had the pleasure of meeting Barry last year. He did not like my Cat Header;) Guess it took too long to load;)

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

  © Blogger template me by me 2010

Back to TOP