NewsBusters.org reports on an exchange that occurred last week on "The
View," which apparently is a daytime TV show featuring a panel of mostly
ditsy female celebrities [1]:
Whoopi Goldberg: Now in the Sudan, there's a British teacher who is
possibly going to be stoned or lashed... Because, in her class they had
some teddy bears and she, one of the kids wanted to name ... his teddy
bear Muhammad and she said "fine." Apparently, other children complained
to their parents, which is how it ended up in the hands of the religious
leaders, and the religious leaders are very very upset...
Sherri Shepherd: I think it's like it's sacrilegious to name a stuffed
toy Muhammad. But you know, you would think that with her being in
Sudan, she would know the rules and customs. Because I know I performed
stand up in Turkey, and they gave me a big thick packet on the customs,
and what you could and could not do, and how you would offend people. So
I'm surprised that she didn't know it might be offensive.
Goldberg: Yeah, because you'd think if you're going overseas, I mean, we
had this discussion yesterday about people coming to America and
learning the customs and knowing what is cool, and what isn't cool. But
I find that maybe we are not--and I say we just as European and
American, we're not as anxious to learn the customs before we go places.
It's just one of the reasons we're called the ugly Americans.
NewsBusters' Justin McCarthy is rightly appalled at the ladies' blasé
attitude toward the Sudanese threat to beat or execute an innocent
woman. Goldberg's comment gives an insight as to why. Note that she
characterizes the teacher, Gillian Gibbons, as being among "the ugly
Americans," notwithstanding that she isn't American at all. The view
here really seems to be that the enemy of my country is my friend--that
the "customs" of Sudan's fanatics are worthy of respect because they are
based in hatred of America and the West.
[1]:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/justin-mccarthy/2007/11/30/view-co-hosts-bl
ame-woman-persecuted-sudan
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It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
for them, it's failing.
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