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March 12, 2006

Primitive

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Two little movies for your Sunday perusal-- Just got the first one on email too, so it must be making the rounds.

From Al-Jazeera: Dr. Wafa Sultan, a brave and articulate Syrian American psychiatrist, analyses Islamic/ Western differences as she debates Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khouli, an English professor. Of course, she is now receiving death threats, thus proving her point.

As Dr. Sultan speaks to the issues that currently hold the Islamic world back in the Middle Ages, one cannot help but note that Christian fundamentalism is having a rather similar effect in this country.

To furthere illustrate my point, here's a second clip , an ad from Vernon Robinson's campaign for Congress in North Carolina. He is a Republican.

Perhaps I am naive, but I don't think that anyone would have had the indecency to air an advertisement like this publically six years ago. We are surely succumbing to our most primitive impulses.

Photo note: Cypress knees are a rare sight around here. They do grow at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, cum bird refuge, cum botanical extravaganza, where I was shooting the dead yesterday. They looked like the toes of an ogre emerging from the earth, in my opinion. But I'm not from the South.

P.S. There was not one American flag to be seen on the grounds. Interesting, but also disappointing, since I have a personal collection.

Posted by Dakota at March 12, 2006 06:05 PM