"Apple Polishing"

In response to a NYT article, August 28, Midwest Conservative Journal yesterday slapped around "the Saudi entity" attempting to polish its image in the West rather than making real changes in its society.

.... (1) Stay completely out of any upcoming September 11th observances. The role your countrymen played in the events of that day is burned into people's minds here. We also haven't forgotten that it took you almost a year even to admit it and that skepticism of the Saudi role that day still turns up from time to time in your press. And we know that you still allow the radical Islamic preachers who inspired 15 of the 19 mass murderers to preach their barbarism with impunity and you've made no attempt to rein them in. So any Saudi participation in this anniversary will be perceived as worse than an insult.

(2) That al-Jubeir guy speaks real good English and looks great in a suit. But an elegant liar is still a liar. Why not employ a woman as your foreign policy spokesperson? You can still get your opinions across and you might even convince a few people here that you actually do think women are more than baby-vending machines.

(3) Quit imprisoning and torturing Christians. That doesn't sit at all well over here. You might even want to let some Christian churches operate openly, if only for foreign workers. It would make your claims about Islamic tolerance of other religions ring a tiny bit less hollow.

P.S. Cool use of strikethrough on MCJ. If I take it up myself, you'll know whom to blame credit. :)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 08/30/02 08:04:54 PM
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