You don't have to read this long article by this researcher from the Foundation for the Defense of Israeli wars and massacres. Basically, the fellow borrows the theme from his teacher at Princeton, Bernard Lewis: that Arabs did not have a notion of freedom until they met the White Man. So the summary is this: praise be to the White Man. Oh, and the word "halal" in the title is merely there to establish the credentials of the writer. Oh, yeah.