Kerry Wins The Arab Vote
Amir Taheri, writing in the New York Post, says
"If it were up to us, it would be 60 percent Kerry, 40 percent Bush," says Iyad Abu-Chaqra, an Arab columnist who has followed American politics for years. "Most Arabs have one dream this year: to see George W. Bush booted out."Click the link and read the whole thing. I now have one more reason***
They see his talk of democracy as an attempt at preventing them from establishing their "ideal Islamic" system based on the Shariah rather than elections.
Bush's "Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative" is seen by Islamists as "a plot to impose a Western model."
to vote for Bush.
posted by Bill Faith @ 8/18/2004 03:20:00 AM
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When you start getting comment spam does that mean you've "arrived" or just that some moron read your post and decided you sounded gullible? Unfortunately, I was taking a coffee break and the spam stayed on my blog almost twenty minutes. I'll have to be more attentive from now on.
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