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Originally Posted by Guest
MD,
Did you REALLY live among them? I did...until they tried to blow us up. They'd spit on women not covered up. EVERYTHING stops...I mean it stops. The traffic stops for prayer. Store sales stop and customers are ushered out. Prayer is like taps and reveille 5 times a day on an Army post.
They are a backwards people...there is nothing to learn from them. Just as there is nothing to learn from the cavemen Negros...or the Native Americans. Their stories are nice...but they're just that. The Greeks were leaps and bounds beyond any indigenous "wisdom".
Were you at an oil compound? Aramco?
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Don, perhaps in my haste I did not get my view across clearly. No, I was not a contractor, although I have known some while in the Middle East. I guess I was being a bit facetious when I said "I enjoyed their Ramadan." Let's put it this way, I have lived in the Middle East for several years and in the Far East for several years and in SE Asia for a few years. I have been exposed to their cultures, that were interesting if not necessarily enjoyed. The point I was attempting to get across to Tal was that his childish-like interest in the Muslims is probably NOT based on experience, but on what he read in his library. They are NOT like us, and I do not mean that totally in a negative way, but their culture does NOT allow for their inclusion into ours. Even our supposed NATO ally Turkey prohibits by law any Christian proselytizing, and they consider themselves to be very westernized. Yes, and everything stops during their prayers that start early in the morning and several times until sunset.
They are NOT like us. I mean, really? How can anyone not eat bacon?
