Plato - More on wannabe Arab

Submitted by Jaladhi (United States), Jan 25, 2007 at 18:11

You wrote: "And there is everything great about being an Arab, to the Arabs. Every people have their own individual greatness. You in Bangladesh have your own greatness. The sad part is that the moment you became Muslim you started looking down on your greatness and started thinking that the greatness of the Arabs is your greatness and in the process your downward slide as a culture and a people began."

Plato, you can say this about all the Muslims outside Arabia. They all want to forget their own culture and want to adopt Arab culture, names, customs. Just look at some of these countries. Iranians have forgotten their ancient culture. Malaysians, Indonesians, Afganistanis who were Hindus and Buddhists want to wipe out the remnants of any of their preIslamic culture completely. Muslims in Pakistan and India all claim to come from Arabia and many claim to be direct decendents of Muhammed. That is why you find lots of them having names such as Pirs, Sayyeds, etc. Even though most of them are converts, you will not find a single Muslim there to even acknowledge this fact.( Read accounts given by Sir V. S. Naipaul in his two books, Among the Believers and Beyond Belief) No wonder they all pretend to be Arabs, and funny thing is when they go to Saudi Arabia or anyother Arab country, they are treated like dirt. So much for being wannabe Arab.

If ever Islam takes over the world, one can kiss goodbye to all the great cultures and civilizations of the world. History books will only show and record history from the 7th century onwards. All the great historical monuments, sculptures, art , music etc will be destroyed just like the Bamiyan Buddha statues in Afganistan. One can write more horrifying scenarios along these lines. Welcome to the future of the stone age of 7th century Arabia.

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