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It’s all about oil Among the things that can be blamed for the failure and inferiority of the Arab world are fatalism, religious rifts, intolerance, the ban on freedom of speech, injustice and inequality, uncritical acceptance of the written word, hostility toward the sciences, inefficient use of time and the neglect of women’s education
Is this the National Review? Free Republic? The Daily Telegraph? The Economist?
No, it’s Arab nationalist Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi writing in his book The Nature of Tyranny
The year of publication? 1901
Plus ça change….
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