American Tableaux Manners Egyptian Style
I rarely link to other people’s posts without context but this one by Dan Varisco, I feel, stands alone. It is sufficient to look at his blog title to gauge his understanding. It is easily the most simple and eloquently correct criticism and description of today’s Islam and Middle East I have ever heard. "Tabsir: Insight on Islam and the Middle East"
Tabsir is an Arabic word that means “waste in excess” usually used to describe excessive monetary waste by the ultra rich.
