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A Most Disturbing Moment of Clarity

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Michael J. Totten - 05.13.2010 - 4:13 PM

Following David Horowitz's talk earlier this month at the University of California, San Diego, was one of the most chilling brief conversations I've heard in a while.

A semi-polite yet coldly hostile student in the audience introduced herself during the question period as Jumanah Imad Albahri of the Muslim Students' Association, and she refused to condemn either Hamas or Hezbollah when Horowitz asked her to clarify her position. He has faced a number of students just like her before, and he's well-practiced in the art of drawing them out, so he asked her a point-blank question that couldn't be easily dodged.

"I am a Jew," he said. "The head of Hezbollah has said that he hopes that we will gather in Israel so he doesn't have to hunt us down globally. For or against it?"

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4AWord

The girl should be put on the terrorist watch list. Very disturbing.

    Reply#1 - Sat May 15, 2010 7:03 PM EDT
    fugitive247

    What is disturbing is the tactic wherein a presenter in some position of authority forces an absolute response without the conversant being granted benefit (not to mention common courtesy) of the opportunity to offer any contextual information or insights. Instead, upon issuing that forced conditional response the conversant, if his or her answer opposes that of the presenter, is immediately dismissed having now been deemed unacceptable per the presenter's agenda.

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