Agreed

Submitted by Dan (United States), Mar 3, 2011 at 15:50

The conclusions of Arn Hatfield are, in my opinion, on the money. The most tyrranical aspects of life in the middle east is the intellectual strait jacket they're brainwashed into from day 1. A reformation in islam is not in the offing and I have no hope that the turmoil in the middle east will ultimately yield democracies; this is a pipe (if you'll pardon the unintentional pun) dream.

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