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Axios has a written summary

artappraiser — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 04:22:13 +0000

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Axios has a brief written summary and video of the MBS interview here.

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artappraiser — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 02:22:08 +0000

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Generation after generation, the Arab world indulged in feeding the hatred of #Jews to its youth. To see the #UAE reversing that trend is a dream becomes true.#RoshHashanah
— Nervana Mahmoud (@Nervana_1) September 29, 2019

Question: does Norah have a

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 22:35:23 +0000

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Question: does Norah have a kid trying to get into Stanford? Just askin...

A thing to watch for tonight.

artappraiser — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 22:33:38 +0000

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A thing to watch for tonight. MBS will be interviewed on 60 Minutes by Norah O'Donnell. (Extraordinary in itself.) We know his stratagem: "I take responsibility, it happened on my watch, but I knew nothing about..." the Khashoggi murder. After he does that, how will she press on?
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) September 29, 2019

Very interesting, I wonder if it will be the best p.r. training money can buy or a more Trumpian iam what iam and that's all that iam. (And date chosen to coincide with Rosh Hashanah? Yes, I am a cynic about this kind of thing...)

Yes, it's absurd. But partly

artappraiser — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 20:54:42 +0000

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Yes, it's absurd. But partly because the old timey mullahs have a stranglehold on Shia practice in Iran. Because overall Shi'sim is more amenable to the 21st century global values.

And I sort of had the similar effects of Wahhabism in mind when I did this post. After all, MBS is supportive of lessening some of the worst effects of Wahhabism on Sunni Islam. There is such deep irony there that right wing Christians would think of him as a traditional ally. He's not, he's a thug who intends to try to modernize the culture by brutal force. Just further absurdity....how did we get here?...

Which isn't saying much.

ocean-kat — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 04:28:51 +0000

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Which isn't saying much. Almost all religions are bad and we could spend the time playing shades of gray deciding which one is more bad than the other bad one. We can only hope that MBS moderates Saudi Islam so it's about as misogynistic and homophobic as evangelical Christianity in America. That would be an immense improvement but it's not very likely.

I continue to be baffled by

Michael Wolraich — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 03:38:10 +0000

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I continue to be baffled by the conservative view that Saudis are “good” Muslims and Iranians are “bad” Muslims. By almost any measure, Iranian theology is more moderate and liberated than Saudi Wahabism.