Monday, September 1, 2008
A surprisingly good piece from the CBC: Islamic state? Not yet
GAZA CITY -- Mahmoud Zahar doesn't believe in evolution. And he has not evolved.
For Gaza, this could be a problem.
The fierce co-founder of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, a surgeon by training, spent 20 minutes after a recent interview with CBC News insisting that evolution is false.
After all, said Zahar, a donkey can eat shrubbery and survive, but a human cannot.
"So, a donkey is more evolved than a human? No," scoffs Zahar, seemingly satisfied that he has demonstrated the absurdity of Charles Darwin's theory. Allah, not evolution, made man, he says, and Allah has made Gaza Islamic.
"We are already an Islamic society," Zahar declares. "We are controlled by Islam in every quarter, every inch of our life."...
No arguing that logic.
The piece goes on to use this as a hook to show how it's Hamas -- not Israel or anyone else -- holding Gaza in retrograde. While it let's the average guy in Gaza off the hook far too easily, it's a surprisingly decent piece. We can only hope that popular support for the group has sunk as far as the CBC implies.
