Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger View Post
I see you managed to read the first paragraph in the first link I provided. However, you seem to have missed the fact that it was written by an Arab, and apparently not a self-hating racist Arab either:



Allow me to also remind you of the rapidly diminishing returns involved in constantly playing the race card.



What does happen? Where is the racism in that question?

And for your information, it is called an establishing question, and is quite common in research papers. Before an author opines on the complexities of a given subject, he or she establishes a base line - the fundamentals the paper is based on.

For example, if I were to write a paper about the benefits of hydrogen fuel cells in consumer vehicles, I might first ask if individual ownership of vehicles is truly necessary as opposed to public transportation.



At this point, I'm not particularly concerned with what you do with them.



My fault and my apologies. It won't happen again.
Nice try, no really, who said anything about self hating, the research linked even sources a weird arabic dictionary and goes through mental gymnastics to tell me what Mujtama' Madanee in arabic means, which apparently isn't Civil Society, Because? (hint: arabic doesn't work like that) this is akin to linking pseudo-science.