Abd Al-Aziz Dweik Quotes
Look closely at what is dubbed the American model, and what do you see? Drugs, alcohol, drunken driving, sex on television, pornographic films ... AIDS which is caused by the spread of homosexuality ... women and men kissing in public, and growing poverty due to economic policies geared exclusively to serve the well off.... Their very technology is saturated with eroticism, and that is what they export to Egypt in the form of movies and television serials
Abd al-`Aziz Dweik, Palestinian Moslem Cleric, al-Mithal al-Amriki; Ra'id Salah, al-Quds wa-Makka; Muhammad Qutb, Dawr al-Mar`a; Nawfal, Utruhat
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The vast majority of the AIDS victims were then and are today heterosexual.
The American to whom he referred was a member of one of the many Think Tanks. This illustrates his naïve and ignorant view of American politics as he perceives such people in America are powerful and important. Another creative think tank analysis wanted to airdrop pornographic pictures throughout Iran, claiming that this would cause more dislocation and crisis for the Iranian Theocracy than anything short of a full scale invasion. He was joking, but when one examines the quotations of Khomeini and other Iranian leaders, it might well be a very successful tactic.
She is a leading American Arab who is a Syrian expatriate. The examples she gives in the beginning of the quotations are relatively recent atrocities where Muslims have attacked and brutally murdered other Muslims. She articulates one of the theories to explain the Islamic propensity to brutality and violence that the religion itself, when taught literally which it so often is, actually produces an inclination and glorification of brutal violence and develops a tolerance and acceptance of Islamic violence.
She did not cite any such studies and others could not find them. Regardless of whether homosexuality is regarding as desirable or not history clearly shows major civilizations where homosexuality was openly practiced and the society thrived anyway. Ancient Greece is but one example. Kern has been censured for her discriminatory and insulting statements made in the legislatures. See {623313} & . {623311} This quotation shows that in a democracy, where legislators represent specific geographic areas, people who are uneducated, racist, homophobic, religiously bigoted and/or foolish can elect a representative who has some bizarre and/or hateful views. There have, in America, always been elected representatives whose views are out of the mainstream and embarrassing to most Americans. However in a free democracy freedom of speech and representation cannot be limited to sensible, constructive, logical or scientifically accurate content. Kern and others like her remind us all where education and public information access may be less than ideal.