Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Hating Saudi...rulers

One of the ways in which propagandists of Arab regimes respond to critics of those regimes is by alleging that those critics "hate" the people of those countries. So they conflate attacks on the corrupt and oppressive rulers with attacks on the people who live and suffer under those rulers. They think they are being smart like that. This Saudi writer, Turki As-Sudayri, writing in Al-Riyadh, says that I attack Saudi Arabia because...Palestinians hate Saudis. Kid you not. (thanks Hani)