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People want to rewrite Arab history to serve vested interests: Al-Zuwailaei

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posted on Feb, 16 2010 @ 06:28 PM
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People want to rewrite Arab history to serve vested interests: Al-Zuwailaei

Source - Arabnews.com

Finally someone willing to spill the beans...


JEDDAH: Those who wish to rewrite the history of Arabia are motivated by their ideologies and do so to promote partisan views, said Saudi historian and archaeologist professor Ahmad Al-Zuwailaei.



“Some people want to rewrite our history to serve the interests of a particular ideology as happened in the 1960s and the 1970s when the leftist ideology gained prominence in the Arab world,” Al-Zuwailaei told Al-Madinah newspaper.

“These people consider the Prophet (peace be upon him) a revolutionary fighting the aristocracy of the Quraish and consider his companions as socialist leaders. They apply Marxist ideology to our history to suit their interests. This is in fact a mockery of history,” said Al-Zuwailaei, who won the 2008-2009 Prince Salman Prize for Historical Studies on the Arabian Peninsula.


Let's hope Al-Zuwailaei doesn't end up with a price on his head (ala Rushdie) for calling attention to this sort of bias. I'm sure this isn't just a problem with academics in Arabic countries.



posted on Feb, 16 2010 @ 06:33 PM
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It takes a brave person to stand up and state what this man has stated.

Kudos to him.



 
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