[oman-l] Digest Number 68 Omani attitudes

[isa]

oman-l@egroups.com wrote:

>  The Omani public went to the streets for the first
> time in recent history outraged by this recent tragedies.

As a Muslim most of my adult life, and as the step-father of a Kurdish boy now in college, and as someone who has many Muslim friends in Kosovo and in Bosnia and in Russia and in Asia, I am deeply perplexed by two aspects of the Omani response among the young people.

1) The deeply held affection for Saddam Hussein who is completely open about his plans to take over the whole Gulf, and who has murdered more Muslim children and women than perhaps anyone in history after Hitler and Mao Tse Tung.

2) The seeming contempt of young Omanis for non-Arab Muslims anywhere else who have suffered the most horrible atrocities, atrocities well publicized in Omani and other Arab news: Kosovo, Chechnya, or anywhere in South or Central Asia or China. When I asked some friends to say a Fatiha for the children of Kosovo last year when they were being massacred during the 'Eid, I was openly laughed at. I was specifically told that these openly religious Omani youths didn't care and did not want to care a
whit about Kosovars.

Isa