Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Jew from Kuwait


Aish Hatorah

Growing up in Kuwait, I had the best of everything. My father owned a successful construction company, and provided us five children with amenities like piano lessons, swimming, calligraphy and trips all over the world. Although we were Muslims like everyone else, we were totally secular and my father always aimed to shield us from religious people whom he described as crazies.

I grew up being told that Israelis and Jews were the lowest type of creature in existence, put on Earth only to kill us Arabs. In math class the teacher would say, "If one rocket killed X number of Jews, how many would six rockets kill?"

My father was rabidly anti-Israel. He was a product of Nasser's school of thought: secular from a Muslim point of view, yet deeply dedicated to the idea of pan-Arab unity. Israel, he believed, was an American proxy in the post-colonial Middle East.[...]

1 comment :

  1. The latest of Aish's "hate all Arabs" pimping poster boys. Read all the comments:

    http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2009/12/05/mark-halawa-aishs-manchurian-muslim/

    http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2010/04/29/mark-muntasir-halawa-pimping-the-pro-israel-lecture-circuit/

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