----- Original Message ----- From: "MEMRI" <memri at memri.org> To: <"MEMRI Subscribers"@securehosts.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 7:30 PM Subject: Jordanian Physicians' Association Criticizes Condoleezza Rice's Comments
> Special Dispatch - Jordan
> December 12, 2001
> No. 312
>
> Former Chairman of the Jordanian Physicians' Association
> Criticizes U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza
> Rice's Comments on Treatment of Women in the Muslim World
>
> The London Arabic-language daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi recently
> published an article by the former chairman of the
> Jordanian Physicians' Association, Dr. Tareq Tahboub:(1)
>
> American Women Are Humiliated More Than Afghani Women
> "What pushed me to write this article was the interview
> with U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice on
> CNN. Asked by Wolf Blitzer about the situation of women in
> Afghanistan, the advisor spoke powerfully and in great
> detail about the situation of women in Islamic countries,
> primarily Saudi Arabia, and about how America cannot agree
> to the humiliation of women in the Islamic world."
>
> "The advisor forgot that the living example of humiliation
> of women in the twenty-first century is Hillary Clinton,
> whose husband fed her all kinds of degradation and
> humiliation, to the point where she was forced to lie in
> front of television cameras in order to defend him and his
> perverted relationships. She testified that he was
> 'innocent' of Monica and Paula - as the wolf is innocent of
> the blood of [Joseph], the son of Jacob [whose brothers
> threw him into a pit to be rid of him and claimed that an
> 'evil beast' had devoured him]."
>
> "The advisor also forgot to mention that the White House
> files proved that Nixon's wife suffered a tear in her
> retina as a result of a severe blow she received from her
> husband."
>
> "What humiliation could be greater for women than the
> systematic rape of a freshman university female student [in
> America], as was proven in documentary and feature films
> telling true stories. The last of these films, broadcast a
> month ago on Jordanian television, presented the true story
> of a student and her friends who were raped by members of a
> fraternity headed by her brother. The epilogue said that
> most young American women are raped at university.
> Eighty-seven percent of rapes are carried out during
> freshman year, by their classmates, at student parties.
> They get the girls drunk with a drink said to be fruit
> juice (punch) but which is actually mixed with alcohol. The
> exacerbation of this problem led to the establishment of
> legal and psychiatric departments at the universities to
> handle this phenomenon, which has reached epidemic
> proportions."
>
> "Where are women's rights, when their statistics show that
> one in every three American women is raped - in addition to
> sexual harassment in the workplace, and even on the part of
> generals in the military, during their hours of rest from
> bombing Iraq and Afghanistan?"
>
> "What humiliation could be greater for women than the
> fashion shows [catwalks] or beauty pageants, in which the
> so-called beauty queens are stripped before the hungry eyes
> of men so that their internal measurements around the bust
> and hips can be taken, as if they were calves at a cattle
> auction?"
>
> "What humiliation - and I quote from the article of Mr.
> Muwfaq Mahaddin, the leftist journalist from the [Jordanian
> paper] Al-Arab Al-Youm, who demanded that the labor unions
> and parties [in Jordan] donate money for oppressed British
> women - could be greater than the results of a poll
> conducted recently by one of the papers, that showed that
> the British man has an average of five extramarital lovers?
> [Not to mention] what Alan Clark, defense secretary in the
> Thatcher government, did - he admitted that he had slept
> with three generations - a girl, her mother, and her
> grandmother - in his office in the British Defense
> Ministry, as published in the Daily Mirror."
>
> Violence Against Women in the U.S.
> "What domestic violence are they talking about, when
> British police statistics show more than a million
> incidents of domestic violence annually? What children's
> rights are they demanding, when in America alone, a quarter
> of a million children are killed every year by aborting
> unwanted fetuses - something that has pushed Americans with
> a conscience to blow up some of the clinics in which they
> carry out this kind of murder and kill some of the doctors
> working in this area? What children's rights are they
> talking about, when pedophilia is legal on the Internet and
> the networks of this perversion reach from Thailand to
> Australia - a general epidemic from which not even the
> Church was spared."
>
> "Our advice to the advisor is to look at herself before she
> tries to force her principles and opinions on others. We
> have suffered enough from the American way of life forced
> upon us by the media and marketing of the American model."
>
> "The Greatest Damage is Western Television"
> "The damages [caused by] the American model are not limited
> to burgers, cola, and Marlboro, which most cannot buy as a
> result of widespread poverty in the Islamic world. The
> gravest damage is television, something that almost no
> home, rich or poor, lives without. When dinnertime comes
> (which is the Arab/Muslim family's traditional hour for
> meeting in the Islamic world), everyone eats in front of
> the television, with no conversation developing among the
> members of the family. When Mickey Mouse comes on, the
> children throw their food on the floor. Children are also
> influenced by depictions of violence in cartoons. Thus,
> family life is being abolished... Nevertheless, Islam and
> even the Muslims are accused of terrorism, although they
> make up 82% of the exiles and refugees in the world..."
>
> Endnote:
>
> (1) Al-Quds Al-Arabi (London), December 7, 2001.
>
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