Duas mulheres, duas visões sobre o mundo actual e o "problema" islâmico.
Oriana Fallaci e a sua previsão do futuro a curto prazo duma Europa submetida ao domínio dos seus imigrantes, maioritariamente islâmicos:
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Briefly put, the alleged plot was an arrangement between European and Arab governments according to which the Europeans, still reeling from the first acts of PLO terrorism and eager for precious Arabian oil made significantly more precious by the 1973 OPEC crisis, agreed to accept Arab “manpower” (i.e., immigrants) along with the oil. They also agreed to disseminate propaganda about the glories of Islamic civilization, provide Arab states with weaponry, side with them against Israel and generally toe the Arab line on all matters political and cultural. Hundreds of meetings and seminars were held as part of the “Euro-Arab Dialogue,” and all, according to the author, were marked by European acquiescence to Arab requests. Fallaci recounts a 1977 seminar in Venice, attended by delegates from 10 Arab nations and eight European ones, concluding with a unanimous resolution calling for “the diffusion of the Arabic language” and affirming “the superiority of Arab culture.”
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The Fallaci Code (com a devida vénia a DK)
Wafa Sultan (psicóloga síria que ficou conhecida pela sua entrevista recente na Al-Jazeera) e a sua visão de que é possível mudar um Islão parado no tempo:
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They [my people] have been hostages of their own beliefs and teachings for fourteen centuries. No hostage can break the laws of his present and get out by himself. An outsider has to help him escape his present.
I have been asking who the saviour is. And answering myself by saying: It is me.
My people are in the middle of nowhere, lost and confused. The humanity´s caravan has passed by them and they are way too far from catching it.
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Wafa Sultan joins Tovia in her First English Language Interview (entrevista gravada numa rádio israelita (6 MB); transcrição parcial de minha responsabilidade; seguir uma das duas ligações)
Blogues sob a alçada das leis civis e criminais
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It would take me too far afield to justify the point, but this sort of charge has become possible only by an astonishing revolution in the meaning of tolerance. It used to be that tolerance was the virtue of the person who held strong views about something or other, but who insisted that those who disagreed had an equal right to defend their views – the sort of stance picked up in the slogan, "I may detest your opinions, but I shall defend to the death your right to speak them." Today, however, tolerance is the virtue of the person who holds no strong views, except for the strongly held view that it is wrong to hold strong views, or to indicate that someone else might be wrong.
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Vale a pena ler o artigo completo: Maintaining Scientific and Christian Truths in a Postmodern World
Parece que nem tudo é admissível nesta nossa Europa:
Cannibal film banned in Germany
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The state court in Kassel upheld a complaint from Meiwes, 44, against the film Rohtenburg, which was due for release in Germany on 9 March.
The court ruled that Meiwes' rights as an individual outweighed artistic freedom and that he should not become the object of a horror film.
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