My hometown paper, the Arab News puts all the European news on one page. Nice and compact. Consider what is in the paper today.
The now-dead French President is shown in newly-released papers to have personally approved the destruction of the Rainbow Warrior in a New Zealand harbor. An activist was killed.
Serbs in Belgrade noted the tenth anniversary of their mass-murder of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica by denying a) it happened, or b) we didn’t do it, or c) who cares. President Karadzic and General Mladic are still at large.
The ETA has broken their truce with the Spanish government.
A mysterious bomber in Italy failed to kill a little girl when the booby-trap he attached to her bike failed to explode. In the past he has booby-trapped boxes of chocolate and pens in the street (one child lost three fingers), a in a church (a girl lost an eye) and a flower pot in a graveyard (an old lady was injured).
Police in London are making progress in identifying the little bits of people left after a number of bombs went off.
OK, so nasty people do nasty things everywhere. Could the Europeans please quit telling us Americans how superior their model for soicety is? Thank you very much.
Wow, that paper really is scraping the barrel for ‘newsworthy’ stories. I can’t find anything anywhere about the Italian bomber. Two other stories are about events from many years ago.
Could the Americans please stop making sweeping generalisations about Europeans?
Golly. Five whole things are happening on the entire continent of Europe.
FIVE?!?!?!
All hail the Arab News, it’s obviously a fantastically in-depth newspaper. Bringing you all the important stories from all round the world.
Keep reading it. It might stop you posting shite on here.
Superior for what? And which Europeans? European Countries are actually still countries, and *even more different * from each other than States in the U.S.
Umm, Paul… how did you make that jump? From European news in a Saudi paper to Europeans being as screwed as Americans? Not that I want to start an argument as to who’s more screwed up or anything but…
I don’t get it…
Or are you just saying that there are arseholes in Europe?
Hmmm…let’s take another Arab perspective, shall we? Al Jazeera’s news front page right now has the Srebrenica massacre as its splash. One metion of the London bombs, Turkey and the EU, and the Luxembourg referendum are the other headlines concerning Europe. Wow, it’s clearly one shithole of a continent. Brazil, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, the Phillipines and Indonesia all get a look-in, too, so that’s South America and Asia also no longer allowed to criticise America, according to Paul in Saudi’s logic.
How come we never hear about the arseholes that live in Australia, Asia or Greenland. Yeah, Greenland, I’m talkin’ about you! You can’t be the only country that doesn’t have any arseholes!
Sure, but offhand I don’t see a lot of Europeans (leaders or otherwise) going around telling the rest of the world how their way is superior to all others and circumventing nations and international organizations that don’t agree with them.
