ALERT: A True Voice of Reason

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Amazing enough that Arab financed Dubai television would allow this powerful and amazing statement to air on Al Jazeera. Please watch this. It is extremely powerful and no doubt Wafa Sultan, an Arab-American psychologist from Los Angeles, is as brave as they make them. This impressive woman will have, if she does not already, a huge price on her head. It will probably not be on the air long. Tell everyone you know to watch it soon, doubtful the link will be active long. Should be seen around the world by everyone, regardless of their politics, religion or beliefs. http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=nul

It's time to listen, really listen. Wafa Sultan has the voice and the courage to speak. We all need to heed her words spoken with the ferocity and heart of a lioness protecting her cubs.

Sadly, in this case her cubs happen to be a large portion of the human race threatened by another portion of so-called humanity. As she so correctly points out, this is not a battle of civilizations, it is a battle between civilization and barbarism. East against West, Muslim fanaticism against just about everyone else . . . the stakes can't possibly get any higher than they are.

LISTEN UP ~ ~ Hear this secular Arabian woman, a potent awe-inspiring voice for rational thought and behavior - going against every ideal we have come to expect from Islamic extremists, and appearing on Al Jazeera television of all places.

Watching and listening to her you will be astonished by what she says, and perhaps even more, by where she is saying it. There is no, none, zilch, zip, zero wiggle room for a counter attack - at least not from anyone who is rational. Of course, rationality does not always have meaning on Al Jazeera, where she is spitting into a hurricane-force wind.

Sultan herself is a force to be reckoned with, one with nearly as much power as that storm wind that wants to destroy us. She speaks passionately about the ability of civilized societies to rise above the need to dominate at any cost. And just as passionately about the need to rise above the insane hatred that drives attacks on other societies, the ones that wipe out a few thousand innocent people at a time. The subtext to her words is clear: We are the target and the bullseye is painted permanently on our chest. Are we listening?

Sure, you might think, she is saying this from the safety of her home in Los Angeles. Don't kid yourself for a minute, Wafa Sultan is a marked woman. And don't forget that as a product of that culture, she knows better than anyone she has made herself a living target. Listen to her - because someone may have to take up her banner in the near future. Does this sound paranoid? It's not. There is a price offered for the Danish cartoonist who dared to characterize Mohammed and still one remains on the head of Salmon Rushdie, even though all this time has elaspsed since the publishing of his Satanic Verses.

Sultan is bravely willing to risk her own life in order to tell us just how bad it really is, just how determined our enemies. We had better listen - we owe it to her - we owe it to ourselves.

Breathtaking and humbling, this speech is a reminder that there are still brave, rational minds at work in a world that sometimes seems to have gone mad. Imagine an Arab woman publicly taking the side of Western civilization, of the Jews, of secularism. Where does this courage come from? It may come from having very clear vision and knowing without a doubt that if the barbarians are not stopped, this world as we know it, has little time remaining.

We need to listen ~ we need to be prepared.

As memories dim with the erosion of time since September 11, our so-called leaders have allowed the attack on our homeland into political coinage. They have not done one damned concrete thing to make us more secure. Here is one lone voice, this infinitely courageous woman, who reminds us not to slip further. Not to be complacent or mindless of the real purpose of extremism: to oppress and enslave and kill anyone who does not cave into their 12th century mentality. Worse still is that their 12th century mentality is armed with 21st century technology.

The barbarians keep our pride and gratitude for being secular American women in western society, free citizens of a free society in high gear. In these times that awareness is not just a g ift, it is a necessity.

Wafa Sultan is laying her life on the line to remind us we better be ready to do the same. We had better be listening and we had better listen hard.