Wednesday, July 22, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Richard Landes: HRW and Saudi Arabian 'citizens': How badly can one misunderstand the problem? - '...what if, in your eagerness to raise money, you actually empowered demopaths. You appealed to members of a society in which honor-killings still occur regularly, and for whom the destruction of a nation with an extraordinary commitment to human rights, to women’s rights, is actually also an imperative of honor, a national "honor-killing" if you will? Is there room in your dogmatic and self-righteous universe for just enough modesty to allow that you may have miscalculated? That you owe an apology to everyone who has donated money to you in the belief you’re fighting for human rights? Or would that cost you too much?' [Excellent analysis of the Human Rights Watch/Saudi controversy.]
