[ May 2, 2024 ]
The Lebanese TV host Joumana Haddad said in a September 19, 2019 monologue on Al-Hurra TV (U.S.), a station supported by the American government, that the Arabs are a racist people. She criticized the Arab nation for looking down, she said, upon other races and nationalities and for not seeing anything shameful about its racism. She said that Arab countries legally condone racism and forms of human trafficking, slavery, and systematic humiliation, and that the Arab countries are “wallowing” in their backward past. In addition, Haddad said that it is human advancement, interest in culture, and intellectuality that determines the value of a country, rather than how many skyscrapers a country has, and added: “We do not belong to the third world, but to the tenth world.”
Here are her own words on Al-Hurra TV:
Unfortunately, without generalizing, we are racist people. We are racist because we still lack human and ideological awareness. We are racist because we look down upon other races and nationalities, which we consider to be “inferior” to us, while ignoring the fact that we ourselves are treated with contempt by many cultures and countries. Maybe our ugly and criminal behavior constitutes an act of revenge for the racism of some in the West towards us, but our bigger problem is that we still do not see anything shameful about racism. We even condone by means of the law, using many names, like the kafala sponsorship system. These names do not conceal the fact that this is slave trade, human trafficking, and systematic humiliation. I cannot understand how an Arab can be so arrogant towards other peoples, races, and nationalities. In Ethiopia, they have a female president, while we wallow in our backward patriarchy. Sri Lanka has no power outages, and Nepal is one of the most ancient civilizations in history. Meanwhile, we boast about the oil, which is, in fact, our curse, and we are proud of progress from which we took only the scraps. People, we do not belong to the third world, but to the tenth world. It saddens me to tell you this. What increases the value of any country is its level of human advancement, how much interest it shows in culture, and the role in[sic] plays in thought – not how many skyscrapers it has.
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It is rare to have such a frank admission about the racism and civilizational backwardness of “the Arabs” and one suspects it could only have been delivered on a station, Al-Hurra, that is backed by the American government.
The ”racism” of the Arabs has many sources. The Qur’an tells them that Muslims are “the best of peoples.” And among the “best of peoples,” Arabs are preeminent; they know it, and so do non-Arab Muslims. For the Qur’an was revealed to a 7th century Arab, and in his language, Arabic. Ideally, the Qur’an should be read only in Arabic. Muslims prostrate themselves in prayer five times a day, turned toward Mecca, in eastern Arabia. They are required, if they can afford it, to make the Hajj in Mecca itself. The first Muslims, the Companions of the Prophet, were all Arabs. Converts to Islam frequently take Arab names. Some even assume the name “Sayyid,” which indicates descent from the Al Quraysh, the tribe of the Prophet. All of this promotes the notion of Arab preeminence within Islam. The late scholar Anwar Sheikh always maintained that Islam “is a vehicle for Arab supremacism.”
The Arabs treat non-Arab Muslims with contumely, or worse. In North Africa, especially in Algeria, the Berbers have for long periods been denied the right by the majority Arabs to use their language, Tamazight, or to transmit their own culture to their children. In Iraq, the Arab military under Saddam Hussein murdered 182,000 Kurds, and “Arabized” Kurdish lands by moving in Arab settlers. No Arabs in Iraq – and no Arabs outside of Iraq – expressed horror or even dismay at this genocidal “Operation Anfal.” In Sudan, the Muslim Arabs suppressed the Muslim blacks, and in Darfur, Arab militia known as the Janjaweed slaughtered blacks, burned down their villages, stole their cattle. Many of the black Africans captured by the Arabs in the long Sudanese civil war were made slaves.
The kafala system to which Haddad refers is used by the Gulf Arabs, and also by the Lebanese, to control foreign workers. Those workers must find a sponsor in the country where they wish to work that sponsor, through whom they obtain a work visa, takes possession of their passports, and has total control over those workers he sponsors. That has led to many abuses, whereby the foreign workers have been subject to workplace abuse – forced to work longer, or to accept far less pay, than was agreed – and also, frequently, to sexual exploitation. Haddad exaggerates in calling this system “slavery,” but not by much. In the Gulf Arab states, the lowest level of unskilled workers – Pakistanis, Indian Muslims, even some Africans – endure conditions akin to slavery, in that they have no rights, no legal recourse, no matter how badly they are treated. And their sponsor can withdraw that sponsorship at any time, leading to their prompt expulsion.
Haddad charges that “we” [the Arabs] “wallow in our backward patriarchy.” She does not spell it out, but her audience would have understood. And though she does not take on Islam directly, that misogynistic “patriarchy” comes directly from Islam. It is Islam that sanctions polygyny, a practice that devalues women; Islam that allows men to divorce their wives simply by uttering the triple-talaq, while for women seeking divorce the procedure is more complicated. A Muslim husband may “beat” his wife if he even suspects her of being “disobedient.” A Muslim daughter normally inherits half that of a son. A Muslim woman’s testimony, in a Shari’a court, is worth only half that of a man. And the reason for that, Muhammad himself says in a famous hadith, is “because of the deficiency in her intelligence.”
She describes how “we [Arabs] wallow in our oil,” which, she claims, “is our curse.” What she means is that the trillions of dollars in oil revenues that the Gulf Arabs and other Arabs, too, in Libya and Algeria, have received, all of it without the slightest effort on their part, has deprived the Arabs themselves of any initiative, inventiveness, entrepreneurial flair, or willingness to work, given how much wealth has flowed so easily to them. They are consumers of the products of other, more advanced civilizations. Qatar is perhaps the outstanding example of this: a country where 88% of the population consists of foreigners, who do all the work, and wait hand and foot on the native Qataris who make up the other 12%. In Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Kuwait, the situation is the same.
Haddad concludes, grimly, that “we [Arabs] do not belong to the third world, but to the tenth world. It saddens me to tell you this. What increases the value of any country is its level of human advancement, how much interest it shows in culture, and the role in plays in thought – not how many skyscrapers it has.” Those skyscrapers –in Riyadh and Jeddah, in Dubai and Doha – provide the illusion of progress and modernity. But Joumanna Haddad is unimpressed; this is all merely a function of money, not of intellectual or spiritual advancement. What Haddad surely has in the back of her mind is the Arab Human Development Report of 2003, spearheaded by Dr. Rian Khalaf Hunaidi. Among the report’s conclusions, which do not date, Spain translates more books into Spanish each year than the entire Arab world has translated into Arabic since the ninth century. And while the number of books translated into Arabic has risen recently, increasing from 175 per year in the period 1970-1975, to 330 today, the total number of books translated in the two dozen states of the Arab world is one-fifth the number translated in Greece alone. The Arabs have shown a remarkable lack of curiosity about the world. They are impressed with their own material progress – those “skyscrapers” Haddad mentions – and are insufficiently attentive to the intellectual progress, and scientific prowess, that is evident everywhere in the advanced West. They want the products of that other world, the world of the Infidels — above all the weaponry the West provides — but as V. S. Naipaul has written, they do not ponder why it is that the West is able to steadily able to progress, and produce so much, in every area, while the Arab and Muslim lands produce so little.
Haddad herself is an Arab, and her palpable hits, against Arab racism, Arab (and Muslim) patriarchy, Arab self-satisfaction with their great wealth that was not the result of any effort on their part, but purely the result of an accident of geology, suggest that all is not lost. She and other keen Arab critics of Arab societies who occasionally surface at the website MEMRI.org, are the evidence that increased self-criticism may appear in the Arab world. Now one can only hope that Arab critics of their own societies, such as the intrepid Joumana Haddad, will appear not only on the American-funded Al-Hurra, but on television stations throughout the Arab world.
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21 Comments
4 years ago
I’ve said this before, it’s astounding how, what little moral courage is displayed by Islam, is predominantly shown by Muslim women. Even there, though, they are the exception to the rule.
4 years ago
Reply to
joscefi
Likely why they subjugate or beat their women- they don’t want to hear it- esp what’s true…
Muslime men gotta be right at any cost or any number of lives = sick.
4 years ago
She said that Arab countries legally condone racism and forms of human trafficking, slavery, and systematic humiliation,
Purely coincidental that the “prophet” of Islam condoned these very same attributes.
4 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
There are several religions that vovet the actions of the leaders. The New Testament, though based on the Bible, follows the teaching of Jesus. You learn to walk in his steps, and do what he would have done. Indeed, the Christian Church now sees him as God, HIMSELF. This happened around 200-300 A.D.
A few hundred years later we saw Muhammad do the same thing as he led the rise to Islam, which was by all means successful, in that it conquered so much of the world. Here again, the basis was another interpretation of the same Bible, with even darker tones than Christianity. It instead, is based on the life of Muhammed, not Jesus, but also teaches you to walk in his path.
Christianity had its share of slavery, as does Islam. We should never forget the Inquisitions either nd we should compare them equally with the Islamic idea of “Convert of die.”
Europe became Christian due to the Roman conversion. When country was conquered, the king was converted, and even if the people were Pagans, they were now Christians. The Spanish spread Christainity to South America by enslaving Indians, but promising freedom if people converted. That freedom was never full equality, because the Spanish were also racists, and would not ccept non-Europeans as equals.
4 years ago
Reply to
Kwitcherbellyakin
The entirety of the Inquisition was nothing but a walk in the park in comparison to what the muslums did and are still doing in the Indian sub-continent ALONE. The muslums arguably committed the greatest genocide in the history of the world in their (continuing) slaughter of Hindus across the entirety of the Indian sub-continent. The Inquisition killed maybe ten thousand people tops.
4 years ago
They are so far behind, they think they are first.
4 years ago
surely such horrific western views and values will get her honor-raped or honor-murdered before too long… right, muzz bruzz ???
4 years ago
It is a very brave thing she’s done speaking out, she’ll be a marked woman from now on, best of luck to her.
4 years ago
Anwar Sheikh was an interesting character. Following the 1948 partition in India, he, along w/his fellow muslums, hunted down and murdered Sikhs (note that Anwar Sheikh himself took part in murdering Sikhs in Pakistain). Later, after Anwar Sheikh moved to the UK, he converted to Hinduism and wrote his famous book Islam: The Arab Imperialism, for both this book and his apostasy he received regular death threats from muslums in the UK even back then.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
It is Satanic in origin to be taught to slaughter your way across the world.
Forcing genocidal derangement syndrome as a way of life or be murdered yourself by family or friends by “honor killing”.
4 years ago
And Haddad gets murdered in 3, 2, 1………
4 years ago
They will come after her with a vengeance for her bold words.
4 years ago
Reply to
ed
U notice she carefully avoided ever indicting the muslum faith. I’m sure that’s not by accident either, not in Lebanon in the 21st islamic century.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Although you are correct…..it is my belief that they WILL still try their best to silence her for this.
Permanently.
4 years ago
Very brave woman- I fear for her longevity for nailing it to the Mosque door (like Luther did to out the Vatican).
4 years ago
The Arab countries that have skyscrapers wouldn’t have them if they weren’t paying infidels to design and build them. They would still be living in tents and huts if left to their own devices. Many of them still live in shacks.
4 years ago
I hope this lady had a personal security detail.
4 years ago
Islam is a religion straight out of the darkest ages of mankind. The closest thing to it I can think of is the Aztec or Mayan blood sacrifices because of its brutality. We should not forget the Inka either.
Usually when powerful culture meets another powerful one, there is either a great war or a friendship based on symbiois. Usually, it is war, and the loser goes home, if not into slavery.
Within Islam, the losers lose their heads, despite their enemies rejection of this fate.
I have a friend who lives in a Muslim country, though it is in the Orient. Her parents left Islam long before she was born, and her area of her country does not havve Sharia hanging overhead. She tells me that there are not many Arabs there, and despite the commanality of Islam, the Arabs look down on non-Arabs.
We have seen infighting between Sunni and Shiite where they bomb eachother’s mosques. If they can’t stop killing their brothers, why should we expect them not to try to kill us too?
4 years ago
May the Lord bless and protect joumana Haddad, A very brave woman.
4 years ago
Finally someone with balls….. wonder when the fatwa will be released on her. Good luck to her.
