"The Arab Mind"

"Many years ago, when I studied Arabic intensively at the American University in Cairo, I was bewildered initially because for the first couple of months I learned only the past tense. That’s the basic tense in Arabic, and so in any Arabic conversation I was locked into the past."  This shows how unitensive his Arabic has been.  He must have derived that from that trashy book by Israeli racist pseudo-anthropologist, Raphael Patai (who of course was invited to teach at the most famous American universities to share his racism with American students) in his book, the Arab Mind.  Had you really studied Arabic, Mr. Kristof, you would have encountered the future tense.