There are excellent books on what Fouad Ajami (a secular Shiia from Beirut now head of Middle East Center at Johns Hopkins) called “The Arab Predicament”, there are UN-sponsored studies by secular Arabs re the cultural malignancies afflicting the Arab countries, and there is always the analysis and history written by the great Arab historian Ibn Khaldun — the guy who, among other things, interviewed Tamurlane at the Gates of Damascus, next to his trademark pile of skulls. The Arab Islamic society is sick unto death — and the great Kurd warrior Salah-ah-din would be ashamed to see what became of all his efforts. He would have had Saddam’s and Osama’s heads on a platter in a New York minute. But he’d have eventually gotten around to banishing the Palestinian leaders who spent most of their money donated from sympathetic Westerners on suicide bombings, madrassas instead of real education, and keeping Suha Arafat in the Parisian elite lifestyle she’d become accustomed to while denying the Palestinian people economic growth (in which Israel was trying to participate before the intifada). There are many great role models for Arabs and other Moslems to look up to — Ibn Rushd, the great poets and scientists the golden age in al Andalus. It’s sheer folly to look to bloody-minded Mohammed as not just a religious prophet but also as the primary cultural hero.

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