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They've Always Learned Quickly from Us
Reader comment on item: Bagels in Dubai?
in response to reader comment: Shocks me how people are eager to misrepresent Dr. Pipes words.

Submitted by Reality Check (United States), Nov 1, 2008 at 22:54

I'm sure they are enjoying schmearing cream cheese on them from little tins too, and why not? I still have a picture in my mind of a bedouin I saw in Sinai years ago tying four huge bags full of chinese takeout to his camel and riding off into nowhere.

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Bagels in Strange Places [66 words]Charles BayarOct 27, 2008 17:04
Challah in dubai [69 words]Stuart TeichOct 26, 2008 19:43
Jewish food in Dubai [69 words]BarbaraOct 26, 2008 15:01
In Dubai..Bagels that's only the beginning KERZNER GROUP'S building the Atlantis and The World! [160 words]Warren SoundSep 18, 2008 07:31
Bagels are no longer Jewish [178 words]John PhilipsSep 15, 2008 05:46
↔ Shocks me how people are eager to misrepresent Dr. Pipes words. [487 words]YnnatchkahSep 18, 2008 03:06
↔ ⇒ They've Always Learned Quickly from Us [50 words]Reality CheckNov 1, 2008 22:54
Off Topic Post - Why isn't America's Media Reporting On India Capital Bombing? [41 words]LarrySep 13, 2008 17:14
↔ For Larry [18 words]LilianaSep 17, 2008 06:55
Are you sure they are not doughnuts? [15 words]Sean HigginsSep 9, 2008 15:38
bagels in Dubai [11 words]Jon PurizhanskySep 5, 2008 15:06
Next? [16 words]LynnSep 2, 2008 10:45
Consider it a Cultural Exchange. [10 words]AhmadAug 31, 2008 00:39
↔ Hummus and the Arabs [290 words]dhimmi no moreSep 6, 2008 07:36
↔ Didn't mean to say hummus is Arab [61 words]AhmadSep 25, 2008 07:48
↔ Bagles and Hummus: And the saga continues [139 words]dhimmi no moreSep 27, 2008 08:17
islamist would say bagels are muslim, like Jerusalem. [50 words]Phil GreendAug 30, 2008 20:18
↔ Jerusalem IS Muslim.....and [37 words]AhmadSep 25, 2008 07:54
So what [60 words]Peter HerzAug 20, 2008 08:03
Forget the Bagel, the attendant looks like an Israeli soldier [117 words]Lame CherryAug 20, 2008 02:05
↔ Lame Cherry I love your post! [37 words]mytwocentsAug 25, 2008 07:35
↔ Disagree [96 words]YnnatchkahAug 25, 2008 12:27
↔ hmm [19 words]Murad AtakanSep 5, 2008 07:35
↔ How did Taqiyah come into this convo? Are you disillusioned? [125 words]Murad AtakanSep 6, 2008 04:56
Dubai [47 words]JJAug 19, 2008 22:36
Why not? [143 words]Rebecca MouldsAug 18, 2008 11:50
alcohol and the Bagel. [53 words]YnnatchkahAug 16, 2008 22:44
Bagles in the sky [129 words]dhimmi no moreAug 16, 2008 18:28
↔ You are priceless, Dhimmi No More [17 words]YnnatchkahAug 17, 2008 23:42
↔ John who walks with ice [55 words]jennifer solisAug 18, 2008 15:17
↔ so what?? [81 words]mytwocentsAug 19, 2008 07:14
↔ Is she a blonde? [29 words]LynnAug 26, 2008 08:17

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