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Bat Ye'or on Europe and multiculturalism
Discours prononcé par Bat Yeor lors de la rencontre annuelle (2-4.11.2006) de Christian Solidarity International (CSI) à lÉglise Paul Gerhardt de Munich, en Allemagne: Speech by Bat Ye'or at the annual meeting (2006/11/01-04) of Christian Solidarity International (CSI)in the Paul Gerhardt church, Munich, Germany : Ladies and Gentlemen It is for me a great honour to be invited by CSI, an organization that has been so active on so many humanitarian fronts in order to denounce slavery, war crimes and genocide, and to alleviate human suffering. And I am thinking particularly of its struggle on behalf of human rights and dignity in Sudan since 1992, and CSIs freeing over 80.000 Christian and other Sudanese slaves under the leadership of John Eibner and Gunnar Wielback. The globalization of our world and the policies that have led to large-scale Muslim immigration, adopted by the European Community from 1973, has introduced into Europe conflictual situations and prejudices common in the Muslim world against non-Muslims that have been documented by Orientalists familiar with Islamic theology, law and history. But the politization of history initiated by Edward Said has obfuscated the root causes of Islams traditional hostility toward Jews and Christians from the seven century onward. Edward Said was a Christian raised in Egypt and educated in America; he taught English literature at Columbia University. A great admirer of Arafat and a member of the PLOs top Committee, he endeavored to destroy the whole scientific accumulation of Orientalist knowledge of Islam and replace it with a culture of Western guilt and inferiority toward Muslims victims. The obliteration of the historical truth that he constantly pursued from 1978 starting with his book Orientalism as well as his hostility to Israel, has prevented an understanding and the resolution of problems that today assail Europe and challenge its own survival. Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-11-07 |
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