Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Arabs are Confused

And what could be a better example than what I just stumbled on? For some reason I was reading a 3 year old news peace on Alarabiya.net about the first Muslim to be crowned Miss UK. The piece discusses just that, very briefly and includes a quote from the Muslim Miss UK about how happy she is.That is all. A year after the news piece was published, one Al Arabiya reader called Abd El Wahab left a comment which translates:

"To the Iranians: Standing up to the brutal American enemy with
perseverence is necessary."

A number of questions come to mind: who the hell is Abd El Wahab? Why didn't he leave his comment on one of the millions of articles which discuss Iran? Why does he think he can adress a message to "the Iranians" anyway? What drove Abd El Wahab at that moment? Is Abd El Wahab a code name for a secret agency which was sending a top secret coded message through Al Arabiya to a top secret ally? Could the top secret agency not have spent a tiny bit more effort at blending in?

OK, I'm done being confuddled.

1 comments:

EgyDiva said...

hhahahahah
your tiny mind will never encompass the intricate complexities of islamic espionage.