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2007-08-30 International-UN-NGOs

Arab countries lagging way behind in Internet access

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Posted by Fred 2007-08-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The internet cuts across distance and through cultural barriers now, and this tendency will accelerate over time as the technology spreads further and computers are made more proficient at automatic translation. Western values will inevitably be propagated on the grassroots level to some of the most Islamic places on Earth, leading to a revolution in thought which may someday contribute to the reformation of these societies from within. Liberal Western values have proven popular and influential throughout other parts of the world and could be favored eventually even in the most seemingly unlikely places. Changes may not occur fast enough to avert disaster with leaders such as Ahmadinejad in power today, but it does at least offer some hope for a better future.

Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-08-30 06:35|| 2007-08-30 06:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Simple solution. Abundant, free and readily accessible goat pr0n...

Posted by tu3031 2007-08-30 09:21|| 2007-08-30 09:21|| Front Page Top

#3 "Arab countries lagging way behind in Internet access..."
and science... and human rights... and manufacturing...

Posted by Dar">Dar 2007-08-30 12:23|| 2007-08-30 12:23|| Front Page Top

#4 We should be pushing laptops with Internet access throughout the area. Give the cell pnone generation further accesss to information that might counteract their propogandic "education" and teach them to think rather than submit.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble 2007-08-30 13:59|| 2007-08-30 13:59|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't believe better access to information is the solution. Remember it is the better western educated Muslims who experience directly the advancement of the West over Islam and resent it the most.

Posted by Titus Hayes4699 2007-08-30 18:31|| 2007-08-30 18:31|| Front Page Top

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