A little soul searching, maestro, if you will.

Mr. Karim Elsahy, the author of the following, is a thoughtful and decent fellow from what we've read of his. He showed courage in wanting to do something about a recent outrage in Egypt where fanatical Muslims stopped the conversion of an Alexandrian home into a Coptic Christian church.

His web site is One Arab World. A new, free, proud, and united Arab world.

He makes these excellent points:

In my opinion, and in the opinion of most realistic Arab scholars, the prime reason for our dysfunction is not our corrupt leaders, our defunct policy, or our ingrained subordination from centuries of colonization. Our problem is these would-be freedom fighters that have sabotaged our causes, ideals, religion, and our lives; amounting to nothing more than the filthy thug terrorists they are labeled as. And another thing I cant understand, Iraq specific. Where the hell was this massive insurgency during Saddams era? Why are we so incapable of standing up to our own? Why must we wait for foreign occupation? Did the Americans put the Iraqis through more torture, death, and humiliation than the Iraqis did?

"Celebrating the Unity." By Karim Elsahy, Arabism, 10/30/05.