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Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Monday, October 13, 2014
“You look around and most of the deaths in the world are from contagious diseases. Not ISIS.”
Last month The Hollywood Reporter published an illuminating investigation on immunization trends in Los Angeles County, which revealed that vaccination rates on the city’s wealthy west side, in neighborhoods like Beverly Hills and Santa Monica, had plummeted, as incidents of whooping cough surged. The piece had the virtue of offering New Yorkers yet another opportunity to feel smugly superior to their counterparts in L.A., because of course here on the East Coast we like our science to come from scientists, not from former Playboy models and people who feel entitled to pontificate about public health because they drink kefir.
“I thought, Whooping cough? Who gets whooping cough anymore?” she said. The episode compelled her to start asking about vaccination early on. “No application to any school asks, ‘Are you an anti-vaxxer?’ but these schools want to keep the anti-vaxxers out.” So, she said, “I ask people and if they get into the whole anti-vaxxer deal, I say, ‘Fine, we can’t work with you.’ ” You’re not, as she put it, “going to Horace Mann like this.”
There is enough appeal in anti-vaccination thinking among members of the affluent class that certain pediatricians in the city, as they have elsewhere around the country, have made it a policy in recent years to refuse to see children whose parents won’t have them immunized. A few years ago Pediatric Associates of NYC, which has branches in Murray Hill in Manhattan and Prospect Heights in Brooklyn, chose this course, David Horwitz, a partner in the practice told me, in large part because it simply became untenable to have unvaccinated children sitting in waiting rooms.
Within the American Academy of Pediatrics there has been a rancorous debate about whether doctors should see un-immunized patients, and the academy’s position has leaned toward an inclusive approach. But, Dr. Horwitz said, “we were spending a lot of time talking to parents who weren’t immunizing and who were terribly ill informed. A lot of people would continue to come back and come back and come back and we were spending so much time talking about vaccinations that we weren’t dealing with other things,” he said.“We ultimately felt ethically uncomfortable seeing people who don’t vaccinate.
We are advocates for children, not their parents.”
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Sunday, October 12, 2014
NY Times Comes to the Defense of…Pedophilia?
They told us we were using what’s known as the slippery slope fallacy and they mocked us mercilessly for it. You dumb conservatives don’t even know how to use logic! You claim that legalizing gay marriage will lead to all this other stuff, but it’s pure hogwash! Well, now the chickens have come home to roost. Polygamy was just decriminalized in Utah, one of the first predictions to come true following the debate over gay marriage. Now, if this editorial from the New York Times is any indication, pedophilia could be the next big issue on the liberal social agenda.
You can always count on the liberal media to humanize the most dastardly predilections enjoyed by the freaks of the world. To start generating sympathy for pedophiles everywhere, the paper wants you to think back to your first childhood crush. Pedophiles are just like you, the argument goes. They just never grew out of that first crush. They developed some kind of mental illness that persists through adulthood. That’s all. We need to help these people, not condemn them.
Oh boy. If it seems unlikely that many would buy into this line of reasoning, you may be in for a nasty surprise. When you have a country ungoverned by any moral authority other than “what seems right at the time,” you open the door to any number of possibilities. If you don’t think that the same people who put a woman’s convenience above a child’s right to life will also put a pedophile’s rights above those of children, you’ve got another think coming. Liberals thrive on standing up for the tiniest minorities they can fine. And they are proficient at introducing gray areas into matters that were black and white only a few years ago.
The vile op-ed goes on to explain that pedophilia is not a choice, but rather it is as inbred into a person’s DNA as schizophrenia, left-handedness, or, of course, homosexuality. It’s so obvious what they’ve done here that conservatives everywhere should be ashamed. Once the left won the battle over the origins of homosexuality, it gave them free reign to drag that same argument over into the arena of pedophilia. Now, what do we do? Agree that homosexuality is inborn but pedophilia is a choice? Where do you draw the line?
The vile op-ed goes on to explain that pedophilia is not a choice, but rather it is as inbred into a person’s DNA as schizophrenia, left-handedness, or, of course, homosexuality. It’s so obvious what they’ve done here that conservatives everywhere should be ashamed. Once the left won the battle over the origins of homosexuality, it gave them free reign to drag that same argument over into the arena of pedophilia. Now, what do we do? Agree that homosexuality is inborn but pedophilia is a choice? Where do you draw the line?
The truth is that it doesn’t really matter whether being attracted to children is a choice or not. Being a sociopath isn’t a choice, either, but that doesn’t mean they get a pass on murder. The same is true of pedophilia. If it’s simply some disease of the mind, that’s fine. That’s actually really unfortunate for those who have it. But are we going to stand by and watch while leftist lawmakers bend the law to accommodate this mental illness?
According to the author of this op-ed, we need to examine discrimination laws and change them to ensure that pedophiles don’t become victims of the system. Maybe. Maybe we should also change them to allow businesses to discriminate against hiring liberals. Clearly, their brand of insanity makes them dangerous to children, Christians, and the future of America.
- See more at: http://unfilteredpatriot.com/ny-times-comes-to-the-defense-of-pedophilia/#sthash.f7MLb1jc.dpuf
Wednesday, October 08, 2014
To the Ignoramuses of all Stripes on the Planet....
Growing Up Unvaccinated
I had the healthiest childhood imaginable. And yet I was sick all the time.
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| You can provide your child with a perfect diet, but if you don't do this, he or she will still be prone to old-fashioned illnesses. |
Iam the ’70s child of a health nut. I wasn’t vaccinated. I was brought up on an incredibly healthy diet: no sugar till I was 1, breastfed for over a year, organic homegrown vegetables, raw milk, no MSG, no additives, no aspartame. My mother used homeopathy, aromatherapy, osteopathy; we took daily supplements of vitamin C, echinacea, cod liver oil.
I had an outdoor lifestyle; I grew up next to a farm in England’s Lake District, walked everywhere, did sports and danced twice a week, drank plenty of water. I wasn’t even allowed pop; even my fresh juice was watered down to protect my teeth, and I would’ve killed for white, shop-bought bread in my lunchbox once in a while and biscuits instead of fruit, like all the other kids.
We ate (organic local) meat maybe once or twice a week, and my mother and father cooked everything from scratch—I have yet to taste a Findus crispy pancake, and oven chips (“fries,” to Americans) were reserved for those nights when Mum and Dad had friends over and we got a “treat.”
As healthy as my lifestyle seemed, I contracted measles, mumps, rubella, a type of viral meningitis, scarlatina, whooping cough, yearly tonsillitis, and chickenpox. In my 20s I got precancerous HPV and spent six months of my life wondering how I was going to tell my two children under the age of 7 that Mummy might have cancer before it was safely removed.
So the anti-vaccine advocates’ fears of having the “natural immunity sterilized out of us” just doesn’t cut it for me. How could I, with my idyllic childhood and my amazing health food, get so freaking ill all the time?
My mother would have put most of my current “crunchy” friends to shame. She didn’t drink, she didn’t smoke, she didn’t do drugs, and we certainly weren’t allowed to watch whatever we wanted on telly or wear plastic shoes or any of that stuff. She lived alternative health. And you know what? I’m glad she gave us such a great diet. I’m glad that she cared about us in that way.
But it just didn’t stop me getting childhood illnesses.
My two vaccinated children, on the other hand, have rarely been ill, have had antibiotics maybe twice in their lives, if that. Not like their mum. I got many illnesses requiring treatment with antibiotics. I developed penicillin-resistant quinsy at age 21—you know, that old-fashioned disease that supposedly killed Queen Elizabeth I and that was almost wiped out through use of antibiotics.*
My kids have had no childhood illnesses other than chickenpox, which they both contracted while still breastfeeding. They, too, grew up on a healthy diet, homegrown organics, etc. I was not quite as strict as my mother, but they are both healthier than I have ever been.
I find myself wondering about the claim that complications from childhood illnesses are extremely rare but that “vaccine injuries” are rampant. If this is the case, I struggle to understand why I know far more people who have experienced complications from preventable childhood illnesses than I have ever met with complications from vaccines. I have friends who became deaf from measles. I have a partially sighted friend who contracted rubella in the womb. My ex got pneumonia from chickenpox. A friend’s brother died from meningitis.
Anecdotal evidence is nothing to base decisions on. But when facts and evidence-based science aren’t good enough to sway someone’s opinion about vaccinations, then this is where I come from. After all, anecdotes are the anti-vaccine supporters’ way: “This is my personal experience.” Well, my personal experience prompts me to vaccinate my children and myself. I got the flu vaccine recently, and I got the whooping cough booster to protect my son in the womb. My natural immunity—from having whooping cough at age 5—would not have protected him once he was born.
I understand, to a point, where the anti-vaccine parents are coming from. Back in the ’90s, when I was a concerned, 19-year-old mother, frightened by the world I was bringing my child into, I was studying homeopathy, herbalism, and aromatherapy; I believed in angels, witchcraft, clairvoyants, crop circles, aliens at Nazca, giant ginger mariners spreading their knowledge to the Aztecs, the Incas, and the Egyptians, and that I was somehow personally blessed by the Holy Spirit with healing abilities. I was having my aura read at a hefty price and filtering the fluoride out of my water. I was choosing to have past life regressions instead of taking antidepressants. I was taking my daily advice from tarot cards. I grew all my own veg and made my own herbal remedies.
I was so freaking crunchy that I literally crumbled. It was only when I took control of those paranoid thoughts and fears about the world around me and became an objective critical thinker that I got well. It was when I stopped taking sugar pills for everything and started seeing medical professionals that I began to thrive physically and mentally.
If you think your child’s immune system is strong enough to fight off vaccine-preventable diseases, then it’s strong enough to fight off the tiny amounts of dead or weakened pathogens present in any of the vaccines.
But not everyone around you is that strong, not everyone has a choice, not everyone can fight those illnesses, and not everyone can be vaccinated. If you have a healthy child, then your healthy child can cope with vaccines and can care about those unhealthy children who can’t.
I would ask the anti-vaxxers to treat their children with compassion and a sense of responsibility for those around them. I would ask them not to teach their children to be self-serving and scared of the world in which they live and the people around them. (And teach them to love people with autism spectrum disorder or any other disability supposedly associated with vaccines—not to label them as damaged.)
Most importantly, I want the anti-vaxxers to see that knowingly exposing your child to illness is cruel. Even without complications, these diseases aren’t exactly pleasant. I don’t know about you, but I don’t enjoy watching children suffer even with a cold or a hurt knee. If you’ve never had these illnesses, you don’t know how awful they are. I do. Pain, discomfort, the inability to breathe or to eat or to swallow, fever and nightmares, itching all over your body so much that you can’t stand lying on bedsheets, losing so much weight you can’t walk properly, diarrhea that leaves you lying prostrate on the bathroom floor, the unpaid time off work for parents, the quarantine, missing school, missing parties, the worry, the sleepless nights, the sweat, the tears, the blood, the midnight visits to the emergency room, the time sitting in a doctor’s waiting room on your own because no one will sit near you because they’re rightfully scared of those spots all over your face.
Those of you who have avoided childhood illnesses without vaccines are lucky. You couldn’t do it without us pro-vaxxers. Once the vaccination rates begin dropping, the drop in herd immunity will leave your children unprotected. The more people you convert to your anti-vax stance, the quicker that luck will run out.
This piece originally appeared on Voices for Vaccines.
This post has been updated to clarify that the quinsy the author contracted, not the author herself, was resistant to penicillin. (Return.)resistant to penicillin. (Return.)
Tuesday, October 07, 2014
"For 16 years your daughters were being raped and....."
Op-Ed: BBC Feasts on Israel, Silent on Rapes in Rotherham
If only the BBC had taken its eyes off Israel for a moment...
Published: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 6:50 PM
The BBC has been so busy with Israel that it has had no time to protect its own daughters. This is the crux of journalistic malpractice.
Journalism’s main role is to keep us informed. When it departs from that duty, there is chaos. Rotherham, for example.
That’s where more than 1,400 English girls were repeatedly raped over a period of 16 years. The girls were mostly Christian and white. The rapists were mostly Pakistanis living in or around the same northern England town, population 250,000, and since these crimes were committed by Muslims, or “Asian men” – hence, your cover-up.
Polite Society can’t handle the truth.
I learned about all this not from The New York Times (of course not), but it was Rich Lowry in the New York Post who opened my eyes.
I share this one paragraph as follows:
“An independent report released last week says, ‘It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered. They were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten and intimidated.’”
So it is when Sharia comes to town.
So the story is coming to light just now. Local authorities were afraid to rock the boat. They chose to ignore the scandal in their midst for fear of being termed bigots. So the raping continued. A woman who finally cried foul was denounced for being Islamophobic. She was sent to sensitivity school.
We are now learning that “UK police arrested parents trying to stop Muslims from raping their children.” So it is when Sharia comes to town.
The men and women who run Rotherham are finally being asked to answer for their sin of neglect. There is finger pointing.
These happen to be small-timers, small-time burghers and politicians who can easily be intimidated and corrupted.
But where was prime time? Where was the BBC? During all that time – 16 years! --where was Orla Guerin and the rest of the BBC’s army of resolute reporters? We know this. They weren’t in Rotherham. If they’d been in Rotherham perhaps 100 rapes could have been stopped. Perhaps 10? Or perhaps only one, and even that would have been enough to claim a slice of triumph in the name of journalism.
Instead, Orla Guerin and the rest of the BBC were in Israel. They rotated one staffer after another to cover every inch of the Gaza war. They wept for the “innocent civilians” of Gaza, virtually all of whom, according to recent surveys, support Hamas and favor continued terror and warfare. So much for innocence.
Have there been tears for the girls of Rotherham? If so, occasional viewers like me haven’t noticed. We have, however, noticed that the BBCcan be spot on against every move within the Land of Israel, 1,000 miles away, but can’t find a map for Rotherham, 10 miles away. (Relative figures.)
If a Jewish family in Jerusalem desires to extend its backyard by two feet, the entire world of journalism collapses upon the Jewish State. Swiftly theBBC gathers up its reporters and rushes to the scene with cameras zooming in upon every nuance of the dispute…indeed, every dispute.
If it involves Israel, the issue being however big or small, there you will find the BBC…if the NY Times doesn’t get there first.
No such luck for the girls of Rotherham.
I suggest as powerfully as I can, that this overindulgence, this gluttonous feasting upon Israel, is wholly or partly responsible for the crimes of Rotherham. Pure and honest and bold investigative reporting could have stopped the outrage. If only the BBC had taken its eyes off Israel for a moment.
This obsession against Israel is a sickness afflicting the entire media and the cost is astonishing for all that is not being reported elsewhere.
Humanity…civilized society, pays for these crimes of journalistic neglect. Rotherham is a fact but it is also a symptom.
Instead of 10 crews to cover EVERYTHING about Israel, how about sparing one crew of reporters to cover ANYTHING in your own neighborhoods, BBC.
That could have made a difference between life and death in Rotherham.
Or perhaps Orla Guerin could have shed one tear less for Gaza and one tear more for her own English sisters.
Change Pakistanis to Israelis and see how quickly Miss Guerin would pounce on the story.
This is not to say that the BBC stands alone in the docket. The Guardian and the rest of England’s editors and reporters – where we you? For 16 years your daughters were being raped and, for the sake of diversity, you were mute, and even today you hardly have the courage to name the criminals Pakistani Muslims.
Shame on you.
Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. NEW …”The Bathsheba Deadline,” now on Kindle, soon in paperback, the “heroic” and “rousing thriller” they tried to ban for exposing media bias against Israel, written by Novelist Engelhard who viewed all the corruption and obsession against Israel from inside-the-newsroom. The novel saw it all coming ahead of time, Hamas, ISIS. Everything. Engelhard’s most famous work is the int’l bestseller “Indecent Proposal” that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Website: www.jackengelhard.com
Monday, October 06, 2014
Why Every Jewish Organization Needs To Be Audited - $20 Million Dollars Stolen From Aish Hatorah By Their Executives!
| Matter of Aish Hatorah N.Y. Inc. v Fetman |
| 2014 NY Slip Op 51430(U) |
| Decided on September 29, 2014 |
| Supreme Court, Kings County |
| Demarest, J. |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports. |
Decided on September 29, 2014
Supreme Court, Kings County
In the Matter of the Application of Aish Hatorah New York, Inc., Petitioner, For An Order Pursuant To Article 75 of the CPLR Confirming an Arbitration Award
against Jacob Fetman a/k/a Yaakov Fetman, Respondent. |
22057/13
Petitioner Aish Hatorah New York, Inc. (Aish) moves for an order: (1) pursuant to CPLR 7510, confirming the award of the arbitrator; (2) pursuant to CPLR 7514, directing that judgment be entered on the award; and (3) restraining respondent from selling, transferring, or otherwise interfering with or disposing of certain properties in which he, his [*2]agents and/or assigns, has an interest.
Respondent Jacob Fetman cross moves for an order: (1) denying the petition and vacating the award; and (2) granting respondent an evidentiary hearing and leave to serve certain discovery devices on petitioner, Rabbi Yitz Greenman, Arbitrator Rabbi Dovid Cohen, and Victor Lipnitsky [FN1] .
Non-party Merkaz, the Center, Inc., (Merkaz), moves separately for an order: (1) pursuant to CPLR 602 (a) consolidating the instant matter with a pending case captioned, Merkaz, the Center, Inc., v Aish Hatorah (Index No. 3432/2014), or in the alternative, (2) pursuant to CPLR 1012(a), allowing Merkaz to intervene in these proceedings; (3) directing Aish to return certain funds; and (4) pursuant to CPLR 6301, restraining defendants from disposing and or transferring certain funds and properties.
FACTUAL BACKGROUND
At issue in this special proceeding is a religious arbitration, known as Beis Din, that was conducted by Rabbi Dovid Cohen between Aish, a New York non-profit corporation, and Jacob Fetman, who was Aish's chief financial officer for 17 years. Four arbitration sessions were conducted between October 13 and December 9, 2013.
Aish asserts that Aish and Fetman initially agreed to arbitrate two
issues: (1) relating to whether Fetman should bear personal responsibility for improperly entering into a lease extension for a property, occupied by Aish, without authority from Aish's executive director, Rabbi Yitz Greenman, and (2) relating to Fetman's liability to Aish for making unauthorized loans from Aish (April 25, 2014 Affirmation of Greenman ¶ 16). It appears to be undisputed that it was respondent Fetman who initially contacted Rabbi Cohen to arbitrate the parties' dispute. At the first session of the arbitration, held October 13, 2013, Fetman signed an agreement to arbitrate the dispute before Rabbi Cohen (Greenman Aff. ¶ 15).[FN2] According to Rabbi Greenman, Fetman, while testifying before Rabbi Cohen about loans he had made using Aish's funds, admitted to creating and controlling secret bank accounts held in Aish's name (Greenman Aff. ¶ 18), prompting the need to address an expanded "dispute". Thus, on October 22, 2013, prior to proceeding with the second session, the parties signed a second agreement to arbitrate.[FN3] Both Rabbi Greenman and Stuart Schabes, an attorney who [*3]represented Aish at the second session and the subsequent sessions before Rabbi Cohen, assert that, during the second session, Fetman admitted that he had misappropriated or stolen Aish's funds (Greenman Aff. ¶ 33; Schabes Aff. ¶¶ 9-10). This is consistent with Rabbi Cohen's Award of December 17, 2013 which is premised on Fetman's admission to having "stolen" money from plaintiff. Schabes states that, following this admission, Rabbi Cohen explained to Fetman that under Jewish law, in light of Aish having established that funds in Fetman's possession were tainted by theft, the burden shifted to Fetman to show that the remainder of the funds in his possession had not been stolen (Schabes Aff. ¶ 10).
"So, then, is there anything at which the Arab world has excelled for the past two generations? Has there been a major Arab export? As it happens, there are two. Hatred and violence.."
What the Arab World Produces
At least since the early part of the 20th century, aside from oil, the Arab world has produced and exported two products.
It has produced essentially no technology, medicine or anything else in the world of science. It has almost no contributions to world literature, art or to intellectual development.
According to the most recent United Nations Arab Human Development Reports (2003-2005), written by Arab intellectuals, Greece, with a population of 11 million, annually translates five times more books from English than the entire Arab world, population 370 million. Nor is this a new development. The total number of books translated into Arabic during the last 1,000 years is less than Spain translates into Spanish in one year.
ArabianBusiness.com reports that about 100 million people in the Arab world are illiterate; and three quarters of them are between the ages of 15 and 45.
As for Arab women, the situation is even worse. Nearly half of the Arab world’s women are illiterate, and sexual attacks on women have actually increased since the Arab Spring, as have forced marriages and trafficking. And the exact number of women murdered by family members in “honor killings” is not knowable. It is only known to be large.
In Egypt, the largest Arab country, 91 percent of women and girls are subjected to female genital mutilation, according to UNICEF. Not to mention the number of women in the Arab world who must wear veils or even full-face and full-body coverings known as burkas. And, of course, Saudi Arabia is infamous for not allowing women to drive a car.
Another unhappy feature of the Arab world is the prevalence of lies. To this day, Egypt denies that it was the Egyptian pilot, Ahmed El-Habashi, who allegedly crashed an EgyptAir jet into the ocean deliberately. Vast numbers of Arabs believe that Jews knew of the 9-11 plot and avoided going to work at the World Trade Center that day.
So, then, is there anything at which the Arab world has excelled for the past two generations? Has there been a major Arab export?
As it happens, there are two.
Hatred and violence.
The Arab world has no peer when it comes to hatred – of the Western world generally, and especially of Israel. Israel-hatred and its twin, Jew-hatred, are the oxygen that the Arab world breathes.
Two of the most popular songs in Egypt over the past decade have been “I Hate Israel” and the ironically named “I Love Israel.”
Lyrics of the latter song include:
“May it [Israel] be destroyed. May it be wiped off the map. May a wall fall on it. May it disappear from the universe. God, please have it banished.”
“May it dangle from the noose. May I get to see it burning, Amen. I will pour gasoline on it. I am an Egyptian man. I am not a coward.”
“I Hate Israel” is so popular that it was the song which Egypt’s pop star Chaaboula sang at the largest music festival in the Arab world, Morocco’s Mawazine. The festival, one of the biggest in the world, featured Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake, Ricky Martin and Kool and the Gang.
Some of the lyrics:
“I hate Israel, and I would say so if I was asked to.
“Two faces of the same coin, America and Israel. They made the world a jungle and ignited the fuse.
“About that [Twin] Tower, oh people. Definitely! His friends [Israel] were the ones who brought it down.”
The other major Arab product and export has been violence.
It is difficult to overstate the amount of violence in the Arab world. Mass murder and cruelty have characterized the Arab world.
Regarding Iraq under Saddam Hussein, Dexter Filkins, the New York Times correspondent in Iraq from 2003-2006 wrote: “Here, in Hussein, was one of the world’s indisputably evil men: he murdered as many as a million of his people, many with poison gas. He tortured, maimed and imprisoned countless more. His unprovoked invasion of Iran is estimated to have left another million people dead.”
Syria, too, has been a country of mass murder, torture, and brutal totalitarian rule — under the rule of Hafez Assad (in power 1971-2000), and his son, Bashar, the current killer-dictator who, among other atrocities, used Sarin gas against his own people in 2013.
In the ongoing Syrian Civil War, according to the United Nations, between March 15, 2011 and April 30, 2014, 191,000 Syrians, about a third of them civilians, were killed. In addition, 2.5 million people have fled Syria to neighboring countries, and 6.5 million have fled their homes within Syria.
In Algeria in the 1990s, Islamist terrorists engaged in wholesale murder of their fellow Algerians. That war cost Algeria about 100,000 lives, mostly civilian.
In Sudan, the Arab government’s atrocities against the non-Arab population in the region of Darfur led to about 300,000 deaths and over a million refugees. In addition there was systematic rape of untold numbers of non-Arab women by Arab gangs known as the Janjaweed.
And then there was the terror unleashed by Palestinians against Israeli civilians in restaurants, at weddings, on buses, etc. The Palestinians are the modern fathers of terrorism directed solely at civilians.
There are two possible reactions to this description of the Arab world. One is that it is an example of anti-Arab “racism.” That would be the reaction in much of the Arab world, on the left and among most academics — despite the fact that the description is of a culture and that the Arabs are not a race. The other is that is that it is tragically accurate. That would be the reaction of some in the Arab world and anyone who cares about truth. One such individual is an Arab. In Politico Magazine two weeks ago. Hisham Melhem, Washington bureau chief of Al-Arabiya, the Dubai-based satellite channel, titled his article “The Barbarians Within Our Gates.” The subtitle is “Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime.”
Islamic State, which is overwhelmingly Arab, is just the latest manifestation.
Sunday, October 05, 2014
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