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Salim Mansur: No Cure For This Arab-Muslim Sickness
Any thinking Muslim with a shred of self-respect must have cringed in disgust on watching the buffoonery of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the UN recently.
These two leaders taking centre-stage at the General Assembly displayed the sickness that has turned the Arab-Muslim world into a cultural wasteland and political prison.
Adonis is a cult figure of Greek mythology and the pseudonym of the Arab world's most revered living poet, Ali Ahmad Sa'id (born in 1930), a native of Syria and residing in France for the past three decades.
In a television interview on the Lebanese Arab News Broadcast done in November 2006, Adonis expounded on the emptiness of the Arab world. He said (translation provided by MEMRI - Middle East Media Research Institute):
"If I look at the Arabs, with all their resources and great capacities, and I compare what they have achieved over the past century with what others have achieved in that period, I would have to say that we Arabs are in a phase of extinction."
When asked to explain, Adonis replied: "We have become extinct. We have the quantity. We have the masses of people, but a people becomes extinct when it no longer has a creative capacity, and the capacity to change its world."
History is a cemetery for people and cultures driven to extinction for the lack of freedom under the arbitrary rule of tyrants.
Gadhafi and Ahmadinejad are the poster images of despots in the greater Middle East, and the nature of their rule explains how their people have been crippled by the Islamist ideology at war with freedom, democracy and Israel.
This is a sickness for which there is no immediate cure. And certainly no cure can be provided through concessions to Arab-Muslim demands by Israel, when such concessions will only fuel the deep-seated anti-Semitism that pervades the region.
Continued: No cure for this Arab-Muslim sickness | Columnists | Opinion | Toronto Sun