I wish to continue this discussion ----by BRANCHING OFF
to the issue of "ARAB SPRING" uhm when did it start?
My memory sometimes plays tricks but I seem to REMEMBER
(off the top) that it started sometime in 2011----like first half of the year--
ie sometime around spring 2011 Is that right?
I do not remember exactly when some brilliant tunisian
self immolated-----but I do recall that the RESPONSE
quickly developed into a social phenomenon and by
summer it was something of interest thruout the
"islamic world" I also remember what I thought
about it and where it was going. ok enough of me
(me-me-me-me ---me.._)
We shall now discuss OUR EARLY IMPRESSIONS OF
THE ARAB SPRING---back then---when it started---
whenever that was.... (i will play sherri and tell
dictate topic and content)
The Tunisian young man was the catylist for the Arab Spring. You're right.
Yep. That's my understanding.
There's a really disturbing article in the Saturday Nation (among others),
Tunisia Islamists besiege opposition meeting - Africa - nation.co.ke
regarding Tunisia and a follow-up analysis of where that nation may be headed, post-Arab intellectual Winter. I was only vaguely familiar with the politics of Tunisia but had generally understood that on a regional, comparative basis and at least in the major cities, life was not the hellish, islamic fundamentalist controlled existence that plagues so many Middle Eastern nations.
What is really scary, according to the article, is the emergence of "
the radicals" who are pressing the islamist agenda of puritanical, by-brute-force, in-your-face islamism.
While that portion of the Tunisian population, which sought to overthrow their version of the typical corrupt Arab dictator, may have though they could be free of totalitarianism, they may have inadvertently opened the door to a far more oppressive and poisonous totalitarianism: fundamentalist islam!