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3 Mar 2006, 03:36 PM
Arab-American Psychologist Wafa Sultan tells it like it is in this debate with Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khouli aired on Al-Jeezera: transcript (http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1050), video (http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1050#), and another transcript (http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=783) of a different interview
I think it's difficult to tell if this is going to accomplish anything. on the one hand, a sustained encounter with a rather insulting image of themselves may put them to shame, and they'd know that they're just proving her right when she criticizes them about being outraged and violent and then they become outraged and violent at her criticism, but then it might also just backfire...
The Jews have come from the tragedy (of the Holocaust), and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror, with their work, not their crying and yelling. Humanity owes most of the discoveries and science of the 19th and 20th centuries to Jewish scientists. 15 million people, scattered throughout the world, united and won their rights through work and knowledge. We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people. The Muslims have turned three Buddha statues into rubble. We have not seen a single Buddhist burn down a Mosque, kill a Muslim, or burn down an embassy. Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people, and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.
I think it's difficult to tell if this is going to accomplish anything. on the one hand, a sustained encounter with a rather insulting image of themselves may put them to shame, and they'd know that they're just proving her right when she criticizes them about being outraged and violent and then they become outraged and violent at her criticism, but then it might also just backfire...
The Jews have come from the tragedy (of the Holocaust), and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror, with their work, not their crying and yelling. Humanity owes most of the discoveries and science of the 19th and 20th centuries to Jewish scientists. 15 million people, scattered throughout the world, united and won their rights through work and knowledge. We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people. The Muslims have turned three Buddha statues into rubble. We have not seen a single Buddhist burn down a Mosque, kill a Muslim, or burn down an embassy. Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people, and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.