Saturday, March 11, 2006
Front page of the LA Times, and front page of Daily News San Fernando Valley: Times, has four dull topics:Stale politics, weather, famous aged pinup's story, teenage rapists given prison sentences. Daily News, in big black letters: L.A. WOMAN IGNITES MUSLIM DEBATE.
Dr. Wafa Sultan, USA citizen and psychiatrist, has read the riot act to the Muslim militants. She's virtually psychoanalysed them as ignoble cretins following the edicts, or their idea of the edicts, of bankrupt Scripture. She notes that not one single Jew, no matter the extreme provocation of the Holocaust, has blown themselves up (good point, Wafa!) in retaliation.
Point: Al Jazeera, beginning on February 21, has put her on Arab TV all over: She's now a target, and her family and friends are also in danger. Her husband deserves kudos for his guts and support.
What tickles me especially is that it took a woman, yes a Muslim woman God bless her, a woman with a Doctorate in Psychiatry to be the one with enough daring and true sense of mission to speak up loud and clear. As the news story notes the very fact she got on Al Jazeera with her message strongly foreshadows others taking courage and running with her. A new voice has been born. Amen.
Barry
2 comments:
good for her for having the "guts" to speak up! and kudos to her husband for supporting her.
betty
Powerful woman!
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