A Fribidi alternative?

["VisualMind" <visualmind at php dot net>]

Hi all,

I was following the Fribidi php extension http://www.php.net/fribidi
so I thought I may need to use the opensource project 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fribidi

but it seemed to me that authors have some contempt against Arabic countries, 
or that's what I think ( eg: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?
thread_id=2747434&forum_id=3189 ) so I thought may be I could find another 
Arabic-authored solution as an alternative for fribidi; could any one help me 
about it?

Regards,
Salah Faya