Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Monday, 25 May 2009
Biden Time In Lebanon
The Christian vote is decisive.
You certainly don't get that in an allegedly more "Western" country further south.
A country with a European official language, which requires that the President be a Maronite Catholic, and where the Christian vote, as such, decides the elections (the case in every Western country), is at least Western as anywhere where nothing remotely comparable is the case.
A country which has Christian-majority provinces, and Christian festivals as public holidays, is at least Western as anywhere where nothing remotely comparable is the case..
And a country which has three reserved parliamentary seats for Christians (and one for a Jew) is at least Western as anywhere where nothing remotely comparable is the case.
Any one of Lebanon, Syria or Iran is at least as Western as either Israel or Turkey. Some things do matter even more than the Eurovision Song Contest, you know?
That's because Israel is a Jewish state. You're saying that Jews can't be pro-Western. Not for the first time your racist slip is showing.
ReplyDeleteA country with a European official language, which requires that the President be a Maronite Catholic, and where the Christian vote, as such, decides the elections (the case in every Western country), is at least Western as anywhere where nothing remotely comparable is the case.
ReplyDeleteA country which has Christian-majority provinces, and Christian festivals as public holidays, is at least Western as anywhere where nothing remotely comparable is the case..
And a country which has three reserved parliamentary seats for Christians (and one for a Jew) is at least Western as anywhere where nothing remotely comparable is the case.
Any one of Lebanon, Syria or Iran is at least as Western as either Israel or Turkey. Some things do matter even more than the Eurovision Song Contest, you know?