Hisham Melham of Al Aryabia published this remarkable essay in Politico on September 18. It just came to my attention. It is a memorable and important essay, one that should resonate for a long time. Melham offers compelling arguments and much evidence to support the concluding paragraph below. Nonetheless, most of these groups [despite differences, Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, Islamic state, JH] do belong to the same family tree—and all of them stem from the Arabs’ civilizational ills. The Islamic State, like al Qaeda, is the tumorous creation of an ailing Arab body politic. Its roots run deep in the badlands of a tormented Arab world that seems to be slouching aimlessly through the darkness. It took the Arabs decades and generations to reach this nadir. It will take us a long time to recover—it certainly won’t happen in my lifetime. My generation of Arabs was told by both the Arab nationalists and the Islamists that we should man the proverbial ramparts to defend the “Arab World” against the numerous barbarians (imperialists, Zionists, Soviets) massing at the gates. Little did we know that the barbarians were already inside the gates, that they spoke our language and were already very well entrenched in the city. The link is here. Read more: politico/magazine/story/2014/09/the-barbarians-within-our-gates-111116_Page3.html#ixzz3G1pckbJZ politico/magazine/story/2014/09/the-barbarians-within-our-gates-111116_Page3.html#.VDvIUxawSo0
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 12:48:58 +0000
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