U.N. Report: U.S. War on Terror Radicalizes Arabs

[Questioninggeller]

Should this be a surpise to anyone, that the U.S. will/has become a lightening rod for the disenchanted in the Arab world?

AMMAN, Jordan (Reuters) - The U.S.-led war on terror has radicalized more Arabs angry both with the West and their autocratic rulers who are bent on curbing their political rights, a U.N.-commissioned study released Monday showed.

The Arab Human Development Report 2003 said Arab countries lagged other regions in dissemination of knowledge. Readership of books was relatively limited, education dictated submission rather than critical thought, the Arabic language was in crisis.

The report, launched in Amman, blamed an absence of "effective and peaceful channels for dealing with injustices" for pushing radical political groups to seek change by violence.

Rima Khalaf Hunaidi, the top U.N. official behind the team of Arab intellectuals who wrote the report, said anti-Arab sentiment in the West after the September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. cities was a further factor radicalizing Arabs.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=16&u=/nm/20031020/ts_nm/mideast_arabs_report_dc

[aerocontrols]

Interesting headline writing.

[Tony]

The Arab world's biggest problem is that it is trapped in the 13th century. No positive progression can be made until freedom, basic human rights, free speech, religious freedom and women's right are achieved. It’s a tragedy they can’t break the curse of religious fundamentalism.

[aerocontrols]

Originally posted by Tony
The Arab world's biggest problem is that it is trapped in the 13th century. No positive progression can be made until freedom, basic human rights, free speech, religious freedom and women's right are achieved. It’s a tragedy they can’t break the curse of religious fundamentalism.

Those issues you list are actually the focus of the report. Too bad Reuters' priorties are different than those of Muslims who actually want to improve the Muslim world.

MattJ

[DanishDynamite]

Originally posted by Tony
The Arab world's biggest problem is that it is trapped in the 13th century. No positive progression can be made until freedom, basic human rights, free speech, religious freedom and women's right are achieved. It’s a tragedy they can’t break the curse of religious fundamentalism. After making just 2669 posts, Tony makes a post which I basically agree with. :eek:

[Tony]

Originally posted by DanishDynamite
After making just 2669 posts, Tony makes a post which I basically agree with. :eek:

No, we agreed on something a few months ago. Remember the thread I made about the wind power generator thingys in Texas?

[Richard G]

The U.N., and its reports, are no longer relevant.

[Skeptic]

AMMAN, Jordan (Reuters) - The U.S.-led war on terror has radicalized more Arabs angry both with the West and their autocratic rulers who are bent on curbing their political rights, a U.N.-commissioned study released Monday showed

Good!

The long-range goal of this war is, after all, to get the arab world away from the despotic thugs that rule it.

It is no surprise that when Saddam "the American invaders will drown in their own blood" Hussein is blown out of the water, almost instantly, by US power, the arabs in other nations are thinking that, perhaps, their "invincible dear leaders" are not so invinscible after all.