Interesting fact buried in here

[Mediocrates]

http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/u...mething-worse/

From news article:

Fourth, brute anti-Semitism is rife in the Arab world. No country in history has ever produced enlightened political outcomes when anti-Semitism (and anti-Americanism) has dominated the political discourse. According to a major survey conducted by Pew in 2006, 97 percent of Egyptians admitted to holding “somewhat unfavourable” or “very unfavourable” opinions about Jews while none (zero percent) said they had favourable opinions. In Jordan 98 percent said they had unfavourable opinions of Jews with one percent holding favourable opinions. Do with those figures as you please. But history will laugh at you if you ignore them.

[JerichoMissile]

what do you mean by enlightened political outcomes?

China for example is on its way to being the world biggest economy and they are already a manufacturing superpower, yet the chinese ruling communist party dosent even officially recognise Judaism as a religion,lol

I bet the majority of chinese even those that have never even met a jew probably believe jews are all rich or jews are all smart etc....
Yet china is a very successful country, just because the muslim countries are all anti semites dosent mean they cant make a descent country for themselves, unfortunately.

[Mediocrates]

The implication is that no civil society arises out of a culture rife with intense antisemitism. There's essentially no hope for the Arab states at all.

[Inquisitor]

I don't believe that being antisemitic has much to do with any country not becoming a true civil society however any country who's people can't see the wrong in that kind of hatred will never be a civil society.