From Amr Al-Faisal, via ArabNews:

ArabNews: The fifth column

The hope for the future of this Ummah as a free nation, that takes independent decisions without being influenced by any foreign party, is threatened by this younger generation which feels no shame in merely imitating the West.

Any resistance to the intellectual onslaught seems to be ridiculous as our youth give it no importance. This generation which has grown up in a comfortable economic atmosphere is subjected to intellectual attacks unprecedented in human history. Most Muslim parents are doing nothing to counter this attack by inculcating into their offspring the Islamic values on which our society is founded.

At the same time, this generation was born and brought up in the shadow of Camp David and the Oslo Accords which gave the Muslim public an inaccurate impression — that the conflict with Israel was over. They also gave a feeling that there was nothing wrong if people engaged in pleasures, embraced the glittering Western values and joined the bandwagon of the so-called new civilization.

All of these were shattered in the camps of Jenin. It seems, sadly enough, that the destruction suffered by the values and concepts of our youths was greater than we imagined and the effect of MTV was more damaging than we suspected. And now we face a real challenge: To save ourselves from our children who have become our enemies.

And we thought MTV was having a bad affect here....