In this mailing:
- Nonie Darwish: Tyranny of
Shaming
- Amir Taheri: Iran: The French
Soufflé Fails to Rise
Tyranny
of Shaming
American Race Wars as Seen by an Immigrant
by Nonie Darwish • March 11, 2018
at 5:00 am
- The bias of many
Americans against American values has blinded them from seeing
the reasons we immigrants went through hell to come to this
country. Many Americans believe that those who criticize the
culture from which we escaped must be
"Islamophobic." They seem not to understand why we
never again want to see what we have gone through so much to
escape from.
- Such attacks on the
white majority in Americans are, bluntly, racist. It is a
shame that so many Americans are unable or refuse to see what
many immigrants see: that it was under this white majority
that millions of oppressed people -- of all colors and creeds
-- from around the world were rescued from tyranny, Sharia
law, slavery, discrimination, Islamism and a miserable existence
under corrupt, war-torn and famine-stricken nations. Instead,
many seem to want to bring all that here.
- We watched American
freedoms as a dream: to be able to smile back at a man who
opened the door for you without accusations of being a loose
woman for smiling. To be able to wear what you want, go out
when you want, work or get an education or not, and venture to
hope one day to live under a system that respects monogamy and
equal rights for women and minorities. Yes, it is the American
culture where whites are the majority, no problem with that,
that made our dreams come true. Despite its shortcomings no
other country in the world offers its citizens the chance to
be whatever they would like. We might never get back what we
already have.
(Image
source: Lisa Norwood/Flickr)
Every day we hear on television, "We need an
honest discussion about race in this country".
Many well-meaning Americans, however, may have had
enough of this endless, empty and dysfunctional discussion of race.
To an outsider, Americans seem obsessed with race; and the
discussion always deteriorates to shouting, insulting, blaming,
finger-pointing, distorting reality and removing any hope of taking
responsibility for oneself. The goal of the discussion always seems
to be to try to claim that "I am holier than thou."
We immigrants, on the other hand, the minute we land
in the US, we feel the political struggle for our vote.
by Amir Taheri • March 11, 2018
at 4:00 am
France's
Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, pictured on September 8, 2016
(when he was Minister of Defense). Photo by Adrian Dennis - WPA
Pool/Getty Images.
According to those in the know in Paris, France's
Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian is a smart soft-soaper capable
of persuading a mule out of its hind legs.
A provincial politician, Le Drian emerged from
relative obscurity towards the end of President François Hollande's
much-maligned presidency. As Defense Minister in Hollande's
government, Le Drian was quickly established as the star of a
moribund administration.
While other ministers turned round vacuous
illusions, Le Drian won a reputation as a "doer" (in
French faiseur) by winning huge contracts for the sale of the
latest French combat aircraft, the Dassault Rafale, to a number of
countries including Brazil, Egypt and India, thus providing some
good news for Hollande's bad-news tenure.
Le Drian was Socialist enough to survive several
Cabinet reshuffles but not too Socialist to remain on board as the
party's sinking ship.
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