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Could they, for instance, name and describe the 5 pillars of Islam?

Heheh.  I watched one of my friends quiz two of my other friends on this, both of them Westerners living in the Middle East who really should have known something this basic, and neither of them could do it.

The biggest threat, as ever, is our own ignorance.

Amen.  (Which is also something they say in Arabic.)

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Thu Jun 21st, 2007 at 04:33:20 AM EST
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A language NOT understood by more than a handful of the thousands of Americans working at the new US Embassy metropolis in Baghdad - according to a report which I am now searching for (saw it yesterday, forgot to bookmark)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Jun 21st, 2007 at 04:41:29 AM EST
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Happened to see a link to it on talkingpointsmemo.com: http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003476.php

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde
by NordicStorm (michael<-at->sturmbaum.net) on Thu Jun 21st, 2007 at 04:54:11 AM EST
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