{"id":444,"date":"2006-08-03T22:45:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T14:45:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:55:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:55:01","slug":"eloquence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/08\/03\/eloquence\/","title":{"rendered":"Eloquence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel a level of disconnect between her abstract argument and her assignment of roles, but <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wafa_Sultan\">Wafa Sultan<\/a> makes a thought-provoking stance against fundamentalism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on other hand. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them like human beings. What we see today is not a clash of civilizations. Civilizations do not clash, but compete.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Gosh.<\/em> Full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memritv.org\/Transcript.asp?P1=1050\">transcript<\/a>. Reddit <a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/info\/bo4z\/comments\">comments<\/a>. YouTube <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2wPglHZQf-0\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel a level of disconnect between her abstract argument and her assignment of roles, but Wafa Sultan makes a thought-provoking stance against fundamentalism: The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/08\/03\/eloquence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eloquence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-7a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3811,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}