Comrade Jawad sent me this (I post with his permission): "Dear Angry Arab, I am the minister of potatoes in the government of Pakistan. It is part of
my duties to set the record straight on Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Comrade
Junaid's argument that there is already too much public Saudi bashing by
Pakistan's "neoliberal" elites, is the most potatolicious pro-Saudi statement
ever published on the Angry Arab blog. How can there be such a thing as too
much Saudi bashing, we plead with you? It is a mathematical impossibility.
Saudi Arabia is one of the leading sacred cows of Pakistan's relatively
freewheeling English media. The other two are the governments of UAE and China.
Most of these newspapers are available online, so it is not hard to count the
anti-Saudi pieces. There aren't many at all. Junaid is right about one thing.
It is fashionable among liberal Pakistanis to give the US a free pass for
bombing wedding parties in the GWOT. They argue that each blown child
represents not American incompetence of savagery, but something dark in the
heart of the brown-skinned victims themselves. Comarade Junaid is correct to
identify this blame shifting, but then in one slick judo move he uses the same
silly argument to defend the polygamous head-chopping zombies of the Saudi
regime. Saudis have played a hateful role in Pakistan, just as they have in
Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt etc. This needs to be exposed, and not covered up,
for potato's sake."