[Albion Wilde]

Click above to read the full transcript of this extraordiary defense of Western civilization by an Arab-American psychiatrist who, although a secularist herself, defends the freedom of religion and clearly illustrates how radical Islamism, in advocating war and conquest of non-believers, contrasts to Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism. To view the brief, stunning video, click here. An Islamist commentator during her broadcast calls her a heretic.

[kellynch]

Ping -- I'll watch the video at home.

[SF Republican]

As I have mentioned here before: the Christians and the Jews have gone through their reformation, when the Muslims do it, it will not be pretty.

[Albion Wilde]

Ping!

[Red Badger]

It is a clash of civilization with non-civilization.........

[Young Werther]

The study of history is a study of the civilizing factors that mold our existence. A convenient convention arose after the Second World War where the whole world was divided into three parts. BTW I believe that Caesar did this 2000 years ago but if you never studied Latin then you were not exposed to the phrase from Caesar's Gallic Commentaries. "alles Gallae in tres partum divisa est"! (All Gaul is divided into three parts!)

Today we speak of First World, Second World and Third World Countries. These designations describe Economical, Social and Cultural differences. I believe that there is a time component to al these elements. You can visit the headwaters of the Amazon and observe Stone Age era tribes. Nigeria, with all its oil wealth is still a third world entity when you look beyond the ruling class. ..and let's not even try to describe Gaul today!!!

Yes the Arab Welt Ansaung is mid 7th Century which is okay with me as long as I can look to the sky for our next great adventure as the World's First's. Moon Base anuone?

[Publius6961]

No Clash of Civilizations but a Clash between... Middle Ages and 21st Century

Not even.
"Ages" can't clash. It's not like colors...

And the other impossibility: in order to clash physically the civilizations must both be contemporaneous (look it up).

One having died an imperfect death 1000 years ago, does not alter reality.

If current islam is any part of a civilization I fail to see any evidence of it. It has been said that the most numerous living things on the planet are termites, but I would never ever suggest that they are a "civilization"...

[Young Werther]

The study of history is a study of the civilizing factors that mold our existence. A convenient convention arose after the Second World War where the whole world was divided into three parts. BTW I believe that Caesar did this 2000 years ago but if you never studied Latin then you were not exposed to the phrase from Caesar's Gallic Commentaries. "alles Gallae in tres partum divisa est"! (All Gaul is divided into three parts!)

Today we speak of First World, Second World and Third World Countries. These designations describe Economical, Social and Cultural differences. I believe that there is a time component to al these elements. You can visit the headwaters of the Amazon and observe Stone Age era tribes. Nigeria, with all its oil wealth is still a third world entity when you look beyond the ruling class. ..and let's not even try to describe Gaul today!!!

Yes the Arab Welt Ansaung is mid 7th Century which is okay with me as long as I can look to the sky for our next great adventure as the World's First's. Moon Base anuone?

[Antoninus]

The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations.... It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century.

It's a small-minded mistake to condemn 21st century radical Islam as a throwback to the "Middle Ages". It's nothing of the kind. It's an extremist zeitgeist running counter to the equally radical secularist void generated by a materialist Western world. Indeed, one could argue that radical Islam has sprung forth specifically to fill that void. Nature abhors a vacuum.

If the battle is between secularism and Islam, I opt out. Both sides represent an evil philosophy and I want neither to win.

[sandbar]

I was watching a movie about Queen Elizabeth I the other day and the actions of the Pope and Catholics at the time, as well as the Protestants in other instances remind me of the Muslims today. I commented on how the Muslims are about 400 years behind in evolution.

[EDINVA]

let's hope the next video she's in isn't a beheading

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks A Wilde for the ping and topic.

Humanity owes most of the discoveries and science of the 19th and 20th centuries to Jewish scientists.

:')

[trooprally]

Great Ping!
That woman sure has guts . I pray that she is still a live today. What is says is true.
I have a lot of respect for her.

[Mrs T ]

[DoctorMichael]

"....Clash between...Middle Ages and 21st Century...."

[Excellence]

archival ping

[Patriot Hooligan]

"It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing." General George S. Patton

"It took me a long time to realize just how much a student of medieval history could gain from observing the Arab."
General George S. Patton

[lupie]

bump for later

[eleni121]

Wafa - talk all you want about middle ages and other BS -but this clash has been ongoing for 1300 years ever since the lunatic Mohamed you believe in got together with the other lunatics in the desert with their own grievances and turned their social and political grievances into a so called religion. Wafa get this: Christians (and probably most Jews) will never again allow themselves to be dhimmis again.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I think this woman is great. The Islamists can go do unmentionable things with the animals that their religion forbids them to eat, as far as I'm concerned.

[nutmeg]

Link to brief video of discussion in post #1

[Aquinasfan]

It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century.

Wrong. It's a clash between Mohammedanism and the vestigal Christian heritage of the West.

The Middle Ages brought us the greatest philosophical movement in world history, the Scholastic movement, and the rise of the university. The 20th century has given us such triumphs of humanism as communism and socialism, and the slaughter of countless millions.