Borklog: One entry

3 March 2002

Opinion Journal (from the WSJ editorial page) has an article on Why the Muslims Misjudged Us (They hate us because their culture is backward and corrupt). Behind that rather inflammatory headline is some insightful, well, insight, on the historic cultural differences between the West and the middle east / Ottoman cultures.

Government spokesmen in the Middle East should ignore the nonsense of the cultural relativists and discredited Marxists and have the courage to say that they are poor because their populations are nearly half illiterate, that their governments are not free, that their economies are not open, and that their fundamentalists impede scientific inquiry, unpopular expression and cultural exchange.

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