“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
H.L. Mencken
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From the reports of a February 21st Rasmussen Poll:
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Virginia voters found Democrat Mark Warner still holding a significant lead over Republican Jim Gilmore in the race for the U.S. Senate. Warner leads Gilmore by twenty percentage points, 57% to 37%.
More interestingly, Warner has significant back from conservatives:
Warner earns high levels of support from liberals (88%) and moderates (70%) and even a third of conservative voters (34%). Gilmore attracts 60% of conservatives and 24% of moderate voters.
Is this the ripple down effect we can expect in the 2008 elections from 8 years of the Bush Administration?
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This is the sixth installment of our weekly column entitled Ask a Shiite. Our resident Shiite and United Arab Emirates citizen will be fielding questions of a philosophical, physical, and political nature in regards to Shiite Islamic belief and Middle East perception. Interested in asking a question? Send an email to alec.
Question: What are the thoughts in the UAE and in the Muslim world in general about American media and celebrity culture (form example Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, etc.)? How are Western entertainment and culture, specifically movies and music, regarded? Are there laws that restrict access to these forms of media? How do religious leaders view their influence?
Answer: The Muslim world in general has lots of different ideologies and different people. There are those who think that this entertainment culture is bringing corruption and immodesty in their people. There are also those who think that it is perfectly normal.
In the UAE, most of the people think it is normal. But there are also those who say it is bringing corruption and destroying culture. To tell the truth this western culture is influencing people everywhere so much that I wouldn’t really say that the attitude in the Muslim world is much different from the attitudes in the west or anywhere in the world.
People from the subcontinent are spread around almost everywhere and are quite influential. For them, there is the Bollywood, which also has a very similar culture as Hollywood in general.
There aren’t any laws in the UAE stopping people from accessing Western movies, culture, and general media. They do however censor some very explicit parts from being shown at the theaters. I am not sure about the rest of the Muslim world but I don’t think there is any restriction. Iran does have some restrictions as I have been told. They don’t allow nudity.
Many people hold the opinion that this entertainment industry is in reality controlled by freemasons and is used to mind control and guide people in the direction they want (evil). Of course ‘detecting’ this is very hard. They use this tool very cleverly in ways which normal individuals wont realize and will find enjoyable to experience.
To counter this, Iran has its own film industry that seems to be growing and quite good. It can be seen that today people around the world in general are getting more and more ‘westernized’ in the wrong sense. Ideas that are against religion are being seen as normal.
Day by day, more and more people are accepting Western ideas towards media and this culture as normal to varying extents.
Other Ask A Shiite Columns:
Ask A Shiite: Homosexuality in the Middle East & Islam
Ask A Shiite: The US Presence in Iraq
Ask A Shiite: Temporary Marriage and Sex and Society in the Muslim World
Ask A Shiite: Shiites & Sunnis
Ask A Shiite: Perceptions of America in the Middle East
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“America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
See Also: Wired Does Iraq and Horror, Enter Nader Stage Left?, We Cannot Afford War, Are Independents Really Just Tools of the Press?, The War and the Damage Done, and IAEA Iran Report Released Today.
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From a Fox News Poll:
Who is Usama Rooting For?
Who does Usama bin Laden want to be the next president? More people think the terrorist leader wants Obama to win (30 percent) than think he wants Clinton (22 percent) or McCain (10 percent). Another 18 percent says it doesn’t matter to bin Laden and 20 percent are unsure
Yes, that’s right, Fox News is basically conducting push polling for the RNC by asking potential voters who they think Osama Bin Laden would vote for. And guess who won! Your man of questionable ‘madrasa’ background and middle names, Barack Hussein Osama!
Remember Kids Barack Obama would talk with the enemies of our military-industrial complex! And you know what that means: he’s complacent against terrorism.
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See Also: If It’s A War This Honky Wants…, Beyond the pale, The Roundup: Nobody Likes the Snow, and Lodge Your Complaint About Bill O’Reilly’s Lynching Comment.
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