Elif Shafak: 'No Society Is Stagnant. The Islamic World Is Not Stagnant' – Video
THE GUARDIAN: Bestselling Turkish novelist Elif Shafak on multiculturalism, eastern stereotypes and the fallacy that democracy cannot work in the Middle East

To the video >>> David Shariatmadari, Elliot Smith and Christian Bennett | Monday, February 21, 2011
My comment:

This woman is talking BS! Total and utter BS at that! She conveniently omits the fact that Islam is the dominant religion in the East; and that this religion teaches its own superiority. Moreover, it teaches that Islam must prevail over all other religions, ways of life. "Stagnant" is not the word for these Islamic countries; "fossilized" would be a better, more appropriate word. – © Mark

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