From: phd21@seq1.keele.ac.uk (A. Jaber)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
Subject: Re: Ajami Club
Date: 28 Jul 92 19:21:03 GMT
Reply-To: phd21@seq1.kl.ac.uk (A. Jaber)
Organization: University of Keele, England

>From: analyst@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
>
>A. Jaber now posts the material from the New Republic that he claims
>supports his wild assertions about Ajami. It does not.
>
>Ajami says he "was born in the hinterlands of Lebanon" so it is quite
>wrong to claim that he was Persian.
>
>Not even his parents were Iranian. As Jaber's quote shows, a great
>grandfather was, but that hardly makes someone Iranian, unless you
>believe in Hitler's definition of who is a Jew, applied to Arabs.

	To the admirers of Ajami Club:

	It is true that Ajami was born in Lebanon, but that makes him
	a lebanense and not an Arab. Many people in Lebanon do not want
	to be called Arab. Taking the Persian origin of Ajami into
	account if you call him an Arab then you have to call all the
	Russian Jews who come to Israel as Russians and not Israelis
	since some of them has history goes back 1000 years to Russia.

	The Arabs never claimed and will never take this definition
	and I think it is sarchastic of you to put Hitler in this
	discussion. The definition of an Arab is much wider than you
	try to imply. We have many people who live in the Middle East
	and many of them have not been born to Arab parents and they
	enjoy Arab nationality. Arab Nationality will always be extended
	to people loyal to Arab land and not on religious or blood
	background. The principle of giving citezenship to people on
	blood or religion basis exists only in Hitler's Germany and in 
	Israel. Any person lives in the boundary of Arab land can claim 
	Arabism but those who stab Arabs from the back are not Arabs.

	We do not look at the blood of the people or their religion but
	we look at their loyalty.

>Jaber bases his claim Ajami is a Khomeinist on the fact that he was raised
>in Shiite surroundings. That's absurd. It's the same sort of race guilt
>the Nazis used. The claim that everyone who is Shiite instead of Sunni is
>pro-Khomeini is simply absurd. How many Shiites were murdered by the
>Khomeini regime? How many anti-Iranian Shiites live in other countries?

	Any body read my post will know that you are lying. My claim
	about the Khomeinist propaganda was the following and not him
	being a Shia:

	1- His analysis about the Shias social status in Arab countries.
	He claims the Shias are refered to as Country people, this has no
	scholastic foundation since most Arabs in the Middle East are
	country dwellerrs. The status of country dwellers in the
	mid-east is not equal to that of city people. Most of country 
	dwellers are not Shia but rather Sunni Muslims. This is how 
	I refer to Ajamis analysis as Khomeinist because this is how 
	radio Tehran was using the same lies.

	2- Ajamis claim that Arab nationalist were only Sunni Muslims
	and Christians is not true, we all know the warm relationship 
	between Syria (a Pan-Arabist nation) and Khomeini Iran. The
	rulers of Syria are radical Shias (Alawis). This proves the
	false theory of Ajami. This propaganda was always aired by 
	Radio Tehran.

	3- Ajamis attacks on Arab Nationalists as Christians in order 
	to discredit them among the Muslim population is a very typical
	Khomeinist approach.

	This is how I reached my conclusions. You try to twist my
	anaylisis but it will bounce back on you.

>Best;
>-- 
>David Sternlight        David Sternlight Inc.        email:analyst@netcom.COM

A Jaber