| Home | Articles | Blog | Reviews | Spoken | Books | Biographical | Middle East Forum | About this site | Mailing List |
Absolute Despots
Reader comment on item: [Oman:] The Middle East's Most Surprising Country
Submitted by Barry Black (United States), Mar 15, 2017 at 11:49
Over the course of history there have been a handful of benevolent dictators. When a nation has one they are most fortunate because things get done! But such dictatorships can only exist in an homogeneous society.
Note: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of Daniel Pipes. Original writing only, please. Comments are screened and in some cases edited before posting. Reasoned disagreement is welcome but not comments that are scurrilous, off-topic, commercial, disparaging religions, or otherwise inappropriate. For complete regulations, see the "Guidelines for Reader Comments".
Reader comments (14) on this item
 |
 |
Title | Commenter | Date | Thread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quran-ic fanatic "palestinian" fascist: 'pride of Islam is witnessed by millions of dwarves fleeing scattered' [95 words] | Sally | Feb 3, 2023 11:11 | 292051 | ||
| How racist-Arab Wiki rationalizes Swastika & Jihadi inspired massacre on Haredi Jews who don't even serve in the IDF [112 words] | Sally | Feb 2, 2023 03:17 | 291953 | ||
| Some tiny pieces added [23 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Khidir H Ahmed | Jan 28, 2023 02:09 | 291738 | ||
| Oman is hardly different [218 words] | Prashant | Nov 1, 2018 20:12 | 245762 | ||
| What matters is whether the population is content, not whether they enjoy what Westerners call "human rights". [78 words] | Anon. | Oct 31, 2018 23:15 | 245758 | ||
| Oman [24 words] | Kalboz | Mar 29, 2017 11:32 | 237999 | ||
| In Oman, the Qaboos comes before the train. [228 words] | Michael S | Mar 19, 2017 10:35 | 237730 | ||
| not only european [7 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Gérard Couvert | Mar 16, 2017 17:26 | 237645 | ||
| Jewel of Arabia [12 words] | Mohamed Ismail | Mar 16, 2017 03:19 | 237620 | ||
| PRAISE! [33 words] | Sefton SAMUELS | Mar 15, 2017 13:15 | 237613 | ||
| 1 | Oman is still a Muslim state [107 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Lorna Salzman | Mar 15, 2017 12:10 | 237612 | |
 Good Article [13 words] | Atheist Jay | Mar 16, 2017 07:40 | 237612 | ||
| 1 | Is it stable? [247 words] | Anon | Mar 17, 2017 02:13 | 237612 | |
 Absolute Despots [36 words] | Barry Black | Mar 15, 2017 11:49 | 237611 |
Latest Articles
Follow Daniel Pipes
All materials by Daniel Pipes on this site: © 1968-2024 Daniel Pipes. daniel.pipes@gmail.com and @DanielPipes
Support Daniel Pipes' work with a tax-deductible donation to the Middle East Forum.Daniel J. Pipes
(The MEF is a publicly supported, nonprofit organization under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Contributions are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law. Tax-ID 23-774-9796, approved Apr. 27, 1998.
For more information, view our IRS letter of determination.)