tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post114926387527500781..comments2024-03-28T13:18:28.238+00:00Comments on Grumpy Old Bookman: Glubb Pasha on the ArabsMichael Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338398159818400930noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-38256512078458852552016-05-18T13:06:05.005+01:002016-05-18T13:06:05.005+01:00This is a good paragraph for my essay writing. I&#...This is a good paragraph for my <a href="http://writ-ing.services/" rel="nofollow">essay writing</a>. I'm so thankful to you for sharing, sir! May God bless you! Keep it up! And I'll be checking your blog from time to time - don't let us down!<br />hallsarah204@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15030486128395008892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-5850658773400790252009-02-22T23:21:00.000+00:002009-02-22T23:21:00.000+00:00You are all a bunch of racist bigots. It would do ...You are all a bunch of racist bigots. It would do you some good to learn about other people and maybe look at our (the English) role in history to understand why the world is the way it is today!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-79475326230345231242007-10-15T01:21:00.000+01:002007-10-15T01:21:00.000+01:00pasha glubb converted to islam while he worked the...pasha glubb converted to islam while he worked there for the brits when he returned to england he became a christian again,the whole trip was for british american oil to protect arabia,the jordanians came from arabia and had a legal claim to it which the giving of jordon settled this situation,the residents of the mandate resented to claim of the so called jordanian king. thats why its sir. glubbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1149994563914556972006-06-11T03:56:00.000+01:002006-06-11T03:56:00.000+01:00I'd like to comment at greater length on this issu...I'd like to comment at greater length on this issue, but, in case I never get round to it, here's a quick response to Pop's contribution. (And I should point out that I speak as a westerner who has spent many years in the Arab Islamic world.)<BR/><BR/>Yes, recent experience seems to tell the West that Islam is positively addicted to suicide, and, far from respecting women, in fact despises them. But our perspective betrays us: we are looking in from the outside (while they are looking out from the inside) and we're getting it all wrong.<BR/><BR/>Leave out of account the weasel words of our politicians, who constantly assure us that the vast majority of Muslims are as repelled as we are by suicide bombings -- because the truth is that many 'law-abiding' Muslims (trust me, just trust me) are at least secretly sympathetic to the extremists. Look instead at reality.<BR/><BR/>To a Muslim suicide bomber, he (sorry, can't face explaining why it's very seldom she) <I>is not committing suicide</I>. On the contrary, he is carrying out a martyrdom operation, which will send him straight to Paradise. This, you see, is the fate of all Muslims who die fighting for the faith.<BR/><BR/>Suicide is forbidden in Islam, and, because social support systems have historically been so strong, Muslims have never seriously considered it an option. When a Muslim says that what we call a suicide bombing is in reality a martyrdom operation, <I> he is not merely playing with words</I>.<BR/><BR/>So much for suicide. What about women? Well, it is perfectly true that the most radical Islamists despise western women. It's not very nice to hear one Arab telling another (when he reckons nobody else will understand) that a western woman with whom he seems to be on friendly terms is a whore (<I>sharmota</I>), but I'm afraid it happens.<BR/><BR/>The problem here is that Islamic women are expected to be home-makers and child-bearers, and earn respect by their successful performance of these functions. When westerners think that this attitude shows contempt for women, they betray their implicit assumption of the superiority of their own culture.<BR/><BR/>So there you have it. I look down from a great height, and show others the error of their ways . . . <BR/><BR/>No, it won't do. It's only fair that I should declare my own position. As an atheist, I reject the claims of Islam (as I do those of Christianity) and must therefore consider it as a moral code. In this context, it is clear that what was appropriate to the Arabian peninsula fourteen hundred years ago is not at all appropiate to any part of the world today.<BR/><BR/>Ultimately, Islam (like Christianity) will go the way of all religions. Socrates was put to death for blasphemy against a creed now known as Greek mythology. It's quite difficult (I know because I've tried) to persuade people that it was once Greek religion.<BR/><BR/>[er . . . I began by saying that this would be brief, and I might comment at greater length later. Well er . . . I just got a bit carried away, that's all.]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1149927733483908572006-06-10T09:22:00.000+01:002006-06-10T09:22:00.000+01:00Seems some strange contradictions here. No suicide...Seems some strange contradictions here. No suicide and suicide bombers? Respect towards women? Under Islam? Does that really look as though it’s happening?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com