Saturday, September 15, 2012

Why Some Arabs Are So Easily Offended


Stanford University's Fouad Ajami has an excellent piece in today's Washington Post - "Why Is the Arab World So Easily Offended?"

"Modernity requires the willingness to be offended. And as anti-American violence across the Middle East and beyond shows, that willingness is something the Arab world, the heartland of Islam, still lacks."