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Following are excerpts from an interview with Iraqi researcher Muhammad Al-Khodari, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on November 23, 2010
Show host Faysal Al-Qassem: Why do the Arabs constantly boast of their gallantry, courage, and honor, although of all the peoples of the world, they are most likely to resign themselves to injustice, oppression, and persecution? Aren't our peoples reminiscent of a man who is always boasting of his escapades with women, only to turn out to be an impotent windbag? Why do we boast of our manliness, while, in fact, we are merely mice who are afraid of their own shadow? Why do we boast of our bravery, when in fact, we are a nation of beggars? Why do we boast of our courage, when in fact, we are the most cowardly people on Earth? Is there any major crime that the Arab rulers have neglected to commit against their people? When has any Arab people ever revolted against its executioners – except in their wildest dreams?
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Muhammad Al-Khodari: Most Arab peoples have no honor, no courage, no valor, or pride. They have abandoned and distorted religion. They have even distorted humanity, and I will prove this with irrefutable evidence. Honor is the quintessence of Man's humanity, or to put it simply: Honor means that the human being is above everything.
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Most Arab peoples have sold their honor. They have pinned their honor on a totalitarian leader, who now steps on their beards, whether they like it or not. Their honor has been violated, but it is the responsibility of the peoples themselves. What honor are these peoples talking about?
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The constitutions of the Arab countries resemble a whore who is raped by the president and his entire entourage, whenever he feels like it.
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In the past, I compared the Arab people to herds of cattle, but I would like to bow my head and apologize to the cattle, because cattle may disobey the shepherd at one point, and it may lead the shepherd to pasture. It is the duty of the shepherd to lead the cattle to food and water, but the Arab leaders are leading their peoples to poverty, to ignorance, to darkness, to tyranny, and to the violation of their honor.
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When colonialism came to an end, it left behind two movements: pan-Arabism, which is Zionist in nature, and which constitutes the remains of colonialism, and the new movement of Jihad, which has nothing whatsoever to do with humanity or with Islam, and to which my colleague here belongs. Their rhetoric is meant to anesthetize the people. They are traitors. These people are the Zionists. They do not deserve to live. If there is any life left in the Arabs, they should spit in these people's faces.
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Look what the Arab people have done. Check out this backward man, whose beard weighs three kilograms... This backward lowlife, who is the product of the Arab peoples, blew himself up in Iraq, at a Mass, among people who were worshipping God. His family and his people are proud of him. This lowlife is the product of my colleague's backward discourse. These people are collaborators with America. They are traitors who have betrayed their people, and they rape their peoples every day and every night.
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Faysal Al-Qassem: People talk about how Israel attacked Gaza. Let me ask you something. By Allah, if Gaza revolted against any Arab ruler, would there be anything left of it? By God, Israel is giving Gaza the five-star treatment. If Gaza revolted against any Arab ruler, would a single person remain unharmed? The tanks would make them rue the day they were born.
Muhammad Al-Khodari: No one denies that the Arab rulers excel in coming up with innovative ways to annihilate their own peoples. But I would like to ask you a question: The security agencies, the intelligence, the military, and the rulers themselves are the products of their society, are they not?
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