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Source: http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/robert-fulford-hope-for-the-arab-world
Hope for the Arab World?
(National Post-Canada) Robert Fulford - The Arab Spring began as a time of revolutionary hopes, but ended in a nightmare of chaos and violence. It overturned Egyptian and Libyan governments but the new rulers were no better than the old. In Syria it ignited a long civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands. Why did it fail so calamitously? Elie Mikhael Nasrallah, a Lebanon-born Christian Arab who lives in Canada, provides the answer in a remarkable book, Hostage to History: The Cultural Collapse of the 21st Century Arab World. He argues that Arab culture has developed in a way that makes a viable modern society impossible. The state demands obedience and silence, which creates a sheep-like populace.