Monday
(1)There is an old Arab saying I'm hearing more and more from Iraqis, I will side with my brother against my cousin, but with my cousin against the foreigners.
- Paul Wood on BBC Reporters' Log, 11:51GMT
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Posted by max at March 31, 2003 02:51 PM
And some of the foreigners would like to side with you to help you stop what your cousin is doing to your brother.
Posted by Anonymous Coward at March 31, 2003 03:02 PM
Thinking of all this brother and cousin business, it has crossed my mind that a society where polygamy is practised, even by a small minority, might be more genetically uniform than ours - making two average members more inter-related.
As the evolutionary biologist William Hamilton might have reasoned, we should expect suicide warriors to be commoner in a society where any two individuals share more genes, where therefore death is a lot more like laying down your life for family than for friends.
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Posted by mark at March 31, 2003 04:14 PM
can i amend that slightly?
from my extensive dealings with arabs over the years, i think it should be:
I will SAY that i will side with my brother against my cousin, and with my cousin against the foreigners, THEN MAKE A HUGE NOISE ABOUT IT, BUT NOT ACTUALLY GET OFF MY ARSE FOR ANYONE
Posted by grumunkin at March 31, 2003 07:42 PM
