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I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.
From the independent Jordanian newspaper al-Arab al-Yawm, translated by the CIA (I don't think I'm supposed to publish this...):
Prophet Muhammad's first accomplishment after he entered the city of Mecca was to destroy the statues that the idolaters before Islam had worshiped, and now "after 14 centuries, the sons of the Arab nation who have learned the lesson from their noble prophet, are marching to destroy the human statues that are almost worshiped by some lackeys in order to procure presents and material gifts."
There will be more, and more legitimate, posts on the Arab 1848 in a few days, but let me leave you with this, the first three sentences of Reuel Marc Gerecht's book The Wave: Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the Middle East (written this past summer and published, with truly impeccable timing, last week):
How powerful is the idea of democracy in the Middle East? Could the region actually be at the beginning of a democratic wave, as potentially momentous as the nationalist upwelling after World War II? Could democratic convulsions even become the defining theme of the Middle East during Barack Obama’s presidency?
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