Egyptian Economics
Galal Amin, professor of economics at the American University in Cairo, says the United States “may” be responsible for launching the September 11 attacks against itself: ’No Conclusive Proof’ Arabs & Muslims were Behind 9/11.
“The claim that the Greater Middle East Initiative aims, wholly or partly, to eliminate terror of the type seen on September 11, 2001 is unconvincing, for several reasons. One is that there is still doubt that the September attacks were the outcome of Arab and Islamic terror. No conclusive proof to this effect is yet available. Many writers, American and European, as well as Arab, suspect that the attacks were carried out by Americans, or with American assistance, or that Americans knew about them and kept silent. Such doubts are strong and rest on damning evidence, but the U.S. administration forcefully censors them and bans any discussion of the matter – something that, by the way, makes one suspect the US administration’s commitment to ‘knowledge.’ But enough of that.”
A few paragraphs later, he pretty much admits that Arabs committed the atrocities, but it’s OK because the West deserved it. I think that’s his point, anyway; it’s not easy to discern.
As for the lack of knowledge, what do you have to say about the young Arab men who you say piloted the planes that crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon? Weren’t they well educated, with enough technical sophistication to commandeer commercial planes? So, knowledge is not sufficient to eliminate terror, one would think. Or do you mean something else by knowledge? For if you mean knowledge of international literature and humanities, please say so, as it is much easier to catch up in that domain.
“Concerning women, what do you have to say of the Palestinian girls and women – people who you definitely regard as terrorists – who blew themselves to pieces in protest against the usurpation of their national rights, hoping their sacrifice may bring back Palestine? Most of these women were educated, independently minded, and loaded with confidence. Yet you would see their actions as high terror. So women’s empowerment is not sufficient to eliminate terror. Or is it another type of empowerment you have in mind
The United States gives Egypt more than $2 billion a year in foreign aid, and in return we get incoherent hatred and incitement like this.