I'm an American born and bred, so were my folks, and. America is only three human life-spans in age. street that President Bush must fight in his war against Osama bin Laden." On January 24, 2002, Chris Matthews said on the television program Hardball, "America's been fighting another kind of war to win the hearts and minds of the Arab street." And on November 16, 2001, the NBC Nightly News reporter Martin Fletcher, broadcasting from Cairo, declared, "The battleground isn't only in Afghanistan it's here in the Arab street." Well, Cairo has thousands of miles of street.īut there's a problem with Egypt. In the November 11, 2001, New York Times, John Kifner wrote, "It is on just this Arab. And there is this thing called the "Arab street," which various serious people take seriously. Two of Osama bin Laden's closest aides, Ayman al-Zawahiri and the late Muhammad Atef, came from Egypt, as did Mohammed Atta, who led the September 11 hijackings. The modern Islamist movement can be dated from the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood, by an Egyptian schoolteacher, Hassan al-Banna, in 1928. A Napoleonic invasion, an Albanian pasha named Muhammad Ali, and a British takeover gave Egyptians plenty to look at. Historically Egypt has been the most westward-looking of Arab countries. And although Egypt is a poor country in per-capita-income terms, its economy is larger than Saudi Arabia's. Egypt is by far the most populous Arab state. It is important to understand Arab culture.Įgypt seems a good place to start. The threat of terrorist attacks by al Qaeda continues. Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines. Hatred between Palestinians and Israelis abides.
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