Friday, July 21, 2006

Inspiration from a Muslim hero

An amazing [almost inspiring] video clip has been circulating...it's a short debate between a heroic Muslim professional [Arab-American physician Dr. Wafa Sultan] and an Islamist Sheikh that ran on Al-Jazeera television...if more Muslims spoke up like that, we'd be living in a different world...here's a direct link to the clip:
http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=null
or a link to it's description:
http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1050
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Saudis Tackle Terrorists with Persuasion - Anton La Guardia (Telegraph-UK)The Saudi approach to combating terror includes using clerics to debate "jihad" with jailed militants and convert them to more moderate beliefs.Seeking to fight Islamic extremism with Islamic theologians, Saudi authorities say they successfully re-educated some 400 out of 700 extremists and released them from prison.
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