{"id":516,"date":"2004-09-05T17:30:57","date_gmt":"2004-09-05T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:46","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:46","slug":"some_great_news_i_hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Some Great News &#8211; I Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the L.A. Times, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-arabs5sep05,1,4953503.story?coll=la-headlines-world\" target=\"browser\">Russian School Takeover Stirs Self-Criticism Among Arabs<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8230;on Saturday, some prominent Arabs came forward with a more sobering interpretation: Corrupt, repressed Arab and Islamic societies have become breeding grounds for terrorism. It&#8217;s a judgment often heard among Western critics but rarely voiced in heavily censored Arab rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most perpetrators of suicide operations in buses, schools and residential buildings around the world for the past 10 years have been Muslims,&#8221; wrote Abdul Rahman Rashed, general manager of the popular Al Arabiya television channel. In a blunt column in the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al Awsat, Rashed listed attacks carried out by Muslims in Iraq, Russia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our terrorist sons are an end product of our corrupted culture,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;The picture is humiliating, painful and harsh for all of us.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the long run, it is the Arab people themselves who will bring peace to this conflict. Hopeful glimmers like this may be the start &#8211; I desperately hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the L.A. Times, &#8220;Russian School Takeover Stirs Self-Criticism Among Arabs&#8220;: &#8230;on Saturday, some prominent Arabs came forward with a more sobering interpretation: Corrupt, repressed Arab and Islamic societies have become breeding grounds for terrorism. It&#8217;s a judgment often heard among Western critics but rarely voiced in heavily censored Arab rhetoric. &#8220;Most perpetrators of suicide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}