you claim you have "experience" in the middle east, and are QUITE clear it isn't of the internet variety

...and yet, at the same time, you steadfastly refuse to reveal what it is; you can keep trying to use the "i'm above that fray" facade, but it's abundantly clear you realize how foolish it will make you look to say, "i lived in saudi as an expat kid (which means you had, in practical terms, little to ANY real engagement with the language/people/culture)" and thus be caught doing what you bemoaned in your OP; so yes, we know the real reason you're refusing to answer

at that point, it would, predictably, become a rather juvenile effort where you'd have to clarify and insist something along the lines of, "i was only talking abt INTERNET EXPERTS when i was whining about how amateurs think they know more abt a subject than the expert, not OTHER kinds of amateurs!!!"

yeah, i can see why you're pretty keen to avoid going down that "kettle calling the pot black and getting called on it" road