The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiques are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration […]
Arab Quotes
What was curious was the atmosphere of the rascally Syrian town, made of Moslem scoundrels, Christian thieves, and Jew moneylenders, all of types that blanch Chicago white. Yet what bores one in Chicago, intensely amused me in Damascus. They cheated me out of my eye-lids, stole my letters, lied ten times to the word, and […]
And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away.
Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.
Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. It is (Britain’s) wish that you should prosper even as in the past, when your lands were fertile, when your ancestors gave to the world literature, science and art, and when Baghdad city was one of the wonders […]
Iran announced today that if their demands for the release of the hostages are not met, they will cut off our supply of surly convenience store operators.
Islam is in its origins an Arab religion. Everyone not an Arab who is a Muslim is a convert. Islam is not simply a matter of conscience or private belief. It makes imperial demands. A convert’s worldview alters. His holy places are in Arab lands; his sacred language is Arabic. His idea of history alters. […]
The Badoies (Bedouin) are wild men, amongst whom is no civill societie, no truth or civilitie used: They worship Mahomet, and are very bad Moores, above all other People they are given to Stealths and Rapine; they eate raw flesh, and drinke milke; their habit is vile and filthy, they are greatly endued with swiftnesse […]
I used to wish the Arabian Tales were true: my imagination ran on unknown influences, on magical powers, and talismans.
What above all distinguishes the Arabs from the peoples of the New World is that through the roughness of the former one can still see something of delicacy in their manners and customs: one feels that they were born in this East from which came all the arts, all the sciences, all the religions… In […]
