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Hank Scorpio
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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 Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:52 am Post subject: Very heartening interview on Arabic TV. |
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Check this out
I'd like to see more of this, but judging from the body language of the other people in what is probably the Arab equivalent of the O'Reilly Factor, this guy is probably considered by them to be as whacky as Michael Moore.
Still, it's nice to see someone from that part of the world using reason rather than conspiracy theory and 7th century Islamist fantasy. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:36 am Post subject: |
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| That was pretty interesting, I should find out some more about the guy. The woman announcer was pretty smoking too. |
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Teufelswacht
Joined: 06 Sep 2004
Location: Land Of The Not Quite Right
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:14 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Hank.
From the background screen it appears this guy lives in London (?). I may be wrong. Just an assumption.
The rather robust gentleman with the sailor hat looked visibly uncomfortable at times with what was being said by the speaker.
When I listened to him I was reminded of the saying ..... " a voice crying in the wilderness." |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:18 am Post subject: Re: Very heartening interview on Arabic TV. |
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| Hank Scorpio wrote: |
Still, it's nice to see someone from that part of the world using reason rather than conspiracy theory and 7th century Islamist fantasy. |
Here is another:
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I was personally in a situation where I was praying in a Mosque when the ��Imam�� started asking God to destroy the ��Jews and Christians�� and to make their children orphans and their wives widows! The first thing I did is cutting off my prayers and leaving the mosque immediately. There was no point to continue when the prayers turned to be a space for fueling hatred rather than a space to connect people.
It is really very sad that those clerks and Mullahs are claiming to represent Islam and what is more sad is that they are influencing a large segment of the society.
I think that the mosque, being a very important societal institution, should be reformed. Enough is enough. Politicians and Mullahs have kept us lagging behind many nations in terms of development and civilization.
We have been paying the price of Mullah��s radical interpretations which, if not produced terrorists, produced generations who think that they are victims of the West and that all they could do is to pray that the conspirers�� plots turn against them!!
We urgently need an up to date interpretation of the Qur��an that teach Muslims the value of love and hard work and, most importantly, the value of using their minds instead of being passive receivers to whatever the Mullahs or elites say. These values are there in the Qur��an and the Prophet��s saying but unfortunately clerks don��t see them or, probably, don��t want to see them for their own ends!! |
Yemen Times letter
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I have been reading some of your writings at the Yemen Times. You seem to be a very knowledgeable person but let me tell you what I think of your writings. I think that your writings are very much pre-occupied with conspiracy theories. In each and every article I have read for you there is the same flavour of explaining many of the failures that we have in our country by accusing the Zionists and the US. Let me tell you what I think about that. The Arabs and Muslims are already brainwashed with these conspiracy theories, which I think are not productive and will not take us anywhere close to changing our situation. I think we need writings which address our own problems and that explain our role in our own failures. I think that the Muslims and Arabs are the cause for their own failures because they are under corrupt and undemocratic regimes and the public are too brainwashed by our system of education to be able to think of the right way to change.
I am a Yemeni citizen, very proud to be Yemeni and a Muslim. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:23 am Post subject: |
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| He sounds intelligent and determined. I really hope his chances for survival are higher than what I think they are. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:00 am Post subject: |
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| LBC is pretty well-known as well; one of the bigger arab channels. |
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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: Next to a River
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject: Intelligent |
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I think that the mosque, being a very important societal institution, should be reformed. Enough is enough. Politicians and Mullahs have kept us lagging behind many nations in terms of development and civilization.
We have been paying the price of Mullah��s radical interpretations which, if not produced terrorists, produced generations who think that they are victims of the West and that all they could do is to pray that the conspirers�� plots turn against them!!
We urgently need an up to date interpretation of the Qur��an that teach Muslims the value of love and hard work and, most importantly, the value of using their minds instead of being passive receivers to whatever the Mullahs or elites say. These values are there in the Qur��an and the Prophet��s saying but unfortunately clerks don��t see them or, probably, don��t want to see them for their own ends!! |
This is probably one of the most intelligent things that has been said lately. Extremism did not just erupt full born, it was born out of many years of teachings and attitudes that has in the present born this attitude we call extremism. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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I bet more Shi'a would be saying things like this if publicly backing the American occupation weren't political suicide. His riffs on terrorism are spot on, and you don't have to be in Iraq to recognize that much of the bombings aren't meant to target simply Americans but also to get a rise (and a heavy death toll) out of the Shi'a.
A breath of fresh air, though. |
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Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: Kuwait
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| A breath of fresh air, though. |
Indeed, and courageous. Hopefully, he will continue to speak and gather momentum, so that the majority of muslims can have the say too. |
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