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This interesting clip came to me through the virtual grapeline. As it comes from a Muslim-American psychologist, and as it mentions Jews in a positive light, the wife’s family is spreading it about. Check it out. What I see is a woman daring to speak out against the misogynist and insular Muslim culture. It is interesting to note how the show’s format and mediator mimic Western news media. This underlines her message, which is “Get with the program.” Even the cleric is dressed in western clothes. What the American government is trying to force at gunpoint on the Muslim world – namely the spread of democratic ideals – is already happening at its own, slower pace. Good things are worth waiting for; some things cannot be rushed. Whatever gains made through this slow osmosis of Globalization have been twisted by our administration as a result of our war. This is not the case. The few gains would have occurred anyway, as is witnessed by this broadcast. The debate is on. What America needs to do is to back off and let it take its own shape. What we have accomplished by destroying Iraq is to give the anachronistic religious extremists fuel for their anger,  thereby slowing the debate: One cannot argue with a closed mind. Of course that is also true in Washington.