David Harris on the Radio

A Muslim Voice of Reason David A. Harris Executive Director, American Jewish Committee Week of March 7, 2006 David Harris delivers regular radio commentaries on the CBS radio network, which can be heard nationally just before the Osgood File on more than 400 stations. All of the commentaries are available at www.ajc.org. Click here to listen to this week's message. The following is the full text of this week's broadcast: An Arab-American psychologist recently appeared on the Al-Jazeera TV station. Thanks to the monitoring group MEMRI, the segment was translated from Arabic into English. Here's an excerpt of what she said: The clash we're witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions or civilizations. It's a clash between two opposites. It's a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the twenty-first century. It's a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It's a clash between human rights on the one hand, and the violation of these rights on the other hand. It's a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them like human beings. She goes on to ask why it's only within the Muslim world, and not, for instance, in the Buddhist or Jewish communities, that beliefs are defended “by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies.” This is a path, she insists, that “will not yield any results.” Strong words from a brave individual. This is David Harris of the American Jewish Committee.

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