If Mitt makes it to the White House, all you inferior cultures had better watch out...

Mitt Romney

The East African (Kenya), by Jenerali Ulimwengu* -September 4, 2012
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) - Mitt Romney travelled to Israel recently, as all American presidential hopefuls are wont to do. Nothing funny there.
But when he said words to the effect that Israel’s spectacular economic achievements were made possible because of a superior culture compared with Israel’s neighbours, he surely did not know that he was echoing the words and thoughts of the Jewish state’s most loathed foe.


For I do not think that a man so busy campaigning for the world’s most powerful office has time to reflect on his words and what effect they may have on those listening to him.

Even if they do not enter the pantheon of most memorable last words, they definitely demonstrate the unbelievable insensitivity of some of the big men of American politics.

To suggest that Jewish culture is superior to Arab culture is an insult to the most rudimentary tenets of civility, for there is no way we can judge one culture to be above another.

Every culture has aspects to be admired that other cultures can learn from.
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Indeed, this is the way cultures have cross-fertilised each other down the ages, so that the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilisation had something to do with the Hellenic and Roman civilisations, which in turn had a great influence on Judaic mythology and what is known today as the Judaeo-Christian civilisation that has combined the Old Testament with the New Testament, plus a little Adam Smith and ingredients of George Soros.

Mitt would certainly not know that it was necessary for the Venetian Marco Polo to travel to China to bring back products of the great civilisation of the Middle Kingdom or about the splendour with which Mansa Musa of the great Malian Kingdom went on the Hajj, distributing gold artefacts and ingots along the way.

Source: Africa News Update