JORDAN: MUSLIM LEADERS JUST DON’T KNOW HOW TO BE HAPPY
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
It’s Jordan. One would have hoped for better. But alas. . .
The UPI headlines this morning with "Jordan Islamic Legislators to Boycott World Economic Forum."
When will the Muslim clique break itself up and start lining up with progress? Here and there are breaks in the clique wall; but of course there are still the hard-liners who insist on becoming more and more cavemen.
That’s okay. In time, they’ll be pressed from their pious prance into stepping into chorus line for the dance of freedom and cordiality. Others are trying the dance and finding it to be quite pleasant.
For instance, the latest Kuwaiti move on the part of Muslim leadership opens up voting rights to females. Now that’s dancing. And not just the women are enjoying the party.
Yet in Jordan, the male clique holds on with tenacity. It’s their power clutch. It’s their show to the world that no one is going to shove them around. Well then, fellows, bellow on for no one is listening.
Therefore, the press reports this morning that Jordanian lawmakers have concluded to skip the World Economic Forum, as if their names crossed off the guest list is going to bring havoc to the conference.
They say that Jewish participation at the Forum is the reason they’re going to take their marbles and go home.
All the while Palestinian Authority leader Abbas is supposed to be championing onward ho! for his people and their place in the Middle East sun. However, the snit played out by Jordanian Muslims is not helping the ho! at all.
Nevertheless, figures.
"Deputy Zuheir Abu Ghaleb said Tuesday, ‘The Islamic members of parliament who received invitations to attend the forum will boycott because of the participation of Israeli politicians and economists.’
"An estimated 1,300 officials and prominent figures from all over the world will attend the three-day forum which starts Friday at a Dead Sea tourist resort."
I really don’t think anyone will be handing out crying towels because of the Jordanian absence. One thousand three hundred officials from global expanse does not a crying brigade make.
It’s Jordan. One would have hoped for better. But alas. . .
The UPI headlines this morning with "Jordan Islamic Legislators to Boycott World Economic Forum."
When will the Muslim clique break itself up and start lining up with progress? Here and there are breaks in the clique wall; but of course there are still the hard-liners who insist on becoming more and more cavemen.
That’s okay. In time, they’ll be pressed from their pious prance into stepping into chorus line for the dance of freedom and cordiality. Others are trying the dance and finding it to be quite pleasant.
For instance, the latest Kuwaiti move on the part of Muslim leadership opens up voting rights to females. Now that’s dancing. And not just the women are enjoying the party.
Yet in Jordan, the male clique holds on with tenacity. It’s their power clutch. It’s their show to the world that no one is going to shove them around. Well then, fellows, bellow on for no one is listening.
Therefore, the press reports this morning that Jordanian lawmakers have concluded to skip the World Economic Forum, as if their names crossed off the guest list is going to bring havoc to the conference.
They say that Jewish participation at the Forum is the reason they’re going to take their marbles and go home.
All the while Palestinian Authority leader Abbas is supposed to be championing onward ho! for his people and their place in the Middle East sun. However, the snit played out by Jordanian Muslims is not helping the ho! at all.
Nevertheless, figures.
"Deputy Zuheir Abu Ghaleb said Tuesday, ‘The Islamic members of parliament who received invitations to attend the forum will boycott because of the participation of Israeli politicians and economists.’
"An estimated 1,300 officials and prominent figures from all over the world will attend the three-day forum which starts Friday at a Dead Sea tourist resort."
I really don’t think anyone will be handing out crying towels because of the Jordanian absence. One thousand three hundred officials from global expanse does not a crying brigade make.
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