Sandmonkey

gomeza pointed me at Sandmonkey's blog on blogspot.  "Who is Sandmonkey", you ask?  He's an Egyptian with a very interesting the-emperor-has-no-clothes viewpoint on the Arab side of the whole Middle East conflict.  I just created an RSS feed at eg_sandmonkey.

Among other things, he posted this collection of American cartoonists' responses to the whole Mohammed-cartoons fuss, and this explanation of what he calls the Arab Parallel Universe.  Capsule summary of the Rules of the APU:

1. Arabs never make mistakes, and they rarely lose wars.
2. The Zionists and the Americans are always to blame for everything that is wrong in the APU.
3. If there is any credit at all that can be contributed to Arabs in any way, they will take it.
4. Good leadership is inversely related to how US-friendly a leader is!
5. Any media that is not the official state-owned media is filled with Zionist, Jewish, American, Christian, imperialist, anti-arab influences and they LIE ALL THE TIME!
6. There is really no need for elections in the APU, because Presidents and rulers are presidents and rulers for life.
7. The only viable alternative candidate to the current leader or president is this current leader or president’s son.

Check him out.