Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Arab Woman Debates on TV

From Wafa Sultan, an Arab-American Psychologist, via Taylor Marsh:

The Bravest Woman in the Whole World:

"'The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on the other hand. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them like human beings. What we see today is not a clash of civilizations. Civilizations to not clash, but compete. ... ... ..."


At least click here and read the post, even if you don't watch the video. What she is saying is critically important, and she is saying in a place and in a way that just might get her an audience in the Muslim world.

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