Wednesday, November 3, 2010
[The following, by Dexter Van Zile, is crossposted from CAMERA's Snapshots.]
A woman from Ramallah has spoken up against the problems in Palestinian society in a forceful way. The interview was translated and excerpted by MEMRI.
In an interview to a liberal Arab website, Palestinian reformist Zainab Rashid condemned the manner in which the Palestinian cause has been hijacked by Muslim extremism. A key quote:
"If we want this struggle to end, we must stop Islamizing the [Palestinian] cause by interpreting [current] affairs according to what is written in religious texts... How can we resolve this struggle while people, relying on the holy texts, still believe in the depths of their hearts that it will continue until Judgment Day, when the trees and rocks will call on the Muslim to come kill the Jews hiding behind them?
An extended excerpt from the interview can be found at MEMRI's website, here.
[I am not sure that anything has been "hijacked," since the war against Israel has been religiously motivated from the beginning, but if there is ever to be a resolution, uncompromising Islamism must be unraveled compromising secularism. Good luck. -MS]
