Bill Maher - the well known former showbiz controversial political talk show host was on Larry King live last night.
His views are generally democratic and anti-bush when it comes to foreign policy. He is also anti-establishment and passionately hates religion, but on many issues such as national security and other domestic and social policies he could be considered a far right conservative!
Generally He tries to be a straight shooter with no attached political line.
Anyways, last night the issue of Iran came up and he tried to explain in a simplified manner how profoundly different Iran and Iranians are as a whole than Arabs, socially, politically, racially and historically.
He mentioned that Iran will be a whole different ball game for US than any Arab country and how much more bigger, stronger and culturally sophisticated Iranians are than their Arab counterparts!
He also mentioned how he first came to realize this when his girlfriend attended an elite boarding school in Switzerland in the late 70s, and while hanging out and observing the very many wealthy middle easterners who attended the same school.
He said while the very many Arab students literally looked and talked like people out of a civilization from the middle ages only accompanied with big suitcases of money, Iranian students looked strong, handsome and way more progressive in their thinking.
He jokingly said they were pretty much kids out of 50s and 60s, "perhaps 10-20 years behind our own students as opposed to Arabs who felt like they are 600 years behind" !!
And then out of nowhere he said: "look, they are just different, they are indo_Aryans..." and then he didn't want to elaborate further on it.
All in all I liked the simple and interesting way he put his opinion and perhaps these true facts with regards to the difference between Iranians and Arabs together, although I could have made out without the word "indo-". But hey I'm happy with just about any compliment and recognition these days.
Fortunately he doesn't know that our arabization has been under way for 26 years now.
by the way, Islamists and the little communist student community shouldn't take offense to this.
His views are generally democratic and anti-bush when it comes to foreign policy. He is also anti-establishment and passionately hates religion, but on many issues such as national security and other domestic and social policies he could be considered a far right conservative!
Generally He tries to be a straight shooter with no attached political line.
Anyways, last night the issue of Iran came up and he tried to explain in a simplified manner how profoundly different Iran and Iranians are as a whole than Arabs, socially, politically, racially and historically.
He mentioned that Iran will be a whole different ball game for US than any Arab country and how much more bigger, stronger and culturally sophisticated Iranians are than their Arab counterparts!
He also mentioned how he first came to realize this when his girlfriend attended an elite boarding school in Switzerland in the late 70s, and while hanging out and observing the very many wealthy middle easterners who attended the same school.
He said while the very many Arab students literally looked and talked like people out of a civilization from the middle ages only accompanied with big suitcases of money, Iranian students looked strong, handsome and way more progressive in their thinking.
He jokingly said they were pretty much kids out of 50s and 60s, "perhaps 10-20 years behind our own students as opposed to Arabs who felt like they are 600 years behind" !!
And then out of nowhere he said: "look, they are just different, they are indo_Aryans..." and then he didn't want to elaborate further on it.
All in all I liked the simple and interesting way he put his opinion and perhaps these true facts with regards to the difference between Iranians and Arabs together, although I could have made out without the word "indo-". But hey I'm happy with just about any compliment and recognition these days.
Fortunately he doesn't know that our arabization has been under way for 26 years now.
by the way, Islamists and the little communist student community shouldn't take offense to this.