Robin Wright - Challenges for Reform in the Islamic World

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/13/Robin_Wright_on_the_Future_of_the_Middle_East

Award-winning Washington Post correspondent Robin Wright discusses challenges for democratic and Islamic reforms in the Middle East.

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Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East with journalist Robin Wright in conversation with KCRW's Warren Olney. This program is part of the Los Angeles Public Library's ALOUD speakers and authors program.

Drawing on 35 years of reporting - through wars, revolutions and uprisings - one of America's most prescient journalists offers an insightful reckoning of the changes wracking the Middle East and their impact on its and America's future - Los Angeles Public Library

Robin Wright, who covers foreign policy for The Washington Post, has reported from over 140 countries for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, CBS News, The New Yorker, The Sunday Times and others. She has covered a dozen wars and revolutions in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia.


Warren Olney IV is the host and executive producer of the nationally syndicated PRI program To the Point as well as the long-running local affairs show Which Way, L.A.?, both of which originate at Santa Monica public radio station KCRW.

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[zawam]

islam is to be destroyed not appeased

[apostate123]

There is no terminology for democracy in any of the major Islamic languages, Arabic, Persian, & Turkish.

[kamaranakhdar]

@apostate123

Uhm, actually there is, how good's your Arabic?

[kamaranakhdar]

@zawam

you're a fucking retard. 

[ritchloui]

@megatron0357 You seem to think Islam would not have spread so far if it was as one-dimensional as it is now. Hum. Islam spread as far as it did because Arab bandit slavers used vast armies of castrated Africans to conquer their neighbours. Is that what you think is missing? The Enlightenment changed the world and had the moral sophistication to abhor and abolish slavery. Something neither Christianity nor Islam did in 2,000 and 1,400 hundred years respectively.

[halneufmille]

"The Christian reformation that gave birth to the enlightenment".

Firs time I hear this theory. Montesquieu, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, d'Alembert, Marquis de Condorcet, etc. were all prominent French figures of the enlightenment. I always thought Enlightenment was about empiricism, scientific rigor and reductionism instead of religion.

[sambricky]

Just like christianity and judaism, Islamic religion has no evidence of its god. Muslims get no special favor. Until the religious can physically prove thier god they will always be scrutinized. It seems to me religion is more of a political position than a morally caring position. Just how is it moral to want to kill one another over an unproved hypothesis.

[hurahman]

fuck this bitch...while her soldiers kill muslims...fuck america!!

[totokoe]

People seem confused between Islam and Muslim. Reforming Islam will never happen, but reforming muslim.....to follow the true teaching of Islam is obligatory to all muslim.

Peace be with you all without exception!

[byteresistor]

Reform Islam?

Islam can not reform, you cannot reform the word of god.

Islam means submission to god, reform is not submision.

It can not never change, it doesn't allow change, none whatsoever. It hasn't changed since the 7th century because the Koran demands to be taken word to word and the people who have been brainwashed since birth follow this believe. If you do not follow it then you are a heretic and will get killed. That is the iron grip of Islam. Believe or die.

[bvh412]

This woman is nothing but a mouth piece for the US establishment. She promotes the establishment line- Islamic law for the middle east. Same as Brzezinski, Khalilzad, Scrowcroft, and co. She promotes herself as an independent journalist, its b.s. This woman cares more about her paycheck and carear than reporting the truth to the American people.