Doha debates- Doha väittelyt kritisoivat myös arabeja!!!

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Arabimaailmassa sananvapaus on harvinaista herkkua, mutta Qatarista löytyy ryhmä joka käy vapaata keskustelua puolin ja toisin korkea arvoisten sivistyneiden kansalaisten kanssa arvostellen ja puolustellen kulloinkin käsiteltäviä asioita. He markkinoivat näitä salonki kelpoisia väittelyitä jopa valkoiselle talolle. Tällaiselle voisi olla paljon enemmän tilausta, mikäli löytyy päteviä väittelijöitä, jotka osaavat nähdä asioiden eri osapuolet tasa-arvoisena toimijana.   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doha_Debates

http://thedohadebates.com/

otetaan tähän lainaus väittelystä, jonka aihe on:

This House believes that after Gaza, Arab unity is dead and buried

Sunday February 15 2009
MOTION PASSED by 77% to 23%
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A passionately argued motion at the Doha Debates left the Arab world in little doubt that unity in the region is at best in disarray and quite possibly non-existent....

...Yet despite the deep divisions that separated the two debating teams, both sides unusually agreed on one issue - that true Arab unity, to a lesser or greater extent, would be unachievable without democracy in the region.

As if to illustrate their point, a young Egyptian student drew applause from the 350-strong audience when he stood up to say that such public debating would be impossible in his own country.

"I feel embarrassed to be an Arab,"; said the young man, "when I see Hamas killing Fatah, Fatah killing Hamas, Shia killing Sunni and Sunni killing Shia.

"My leaders are oppressing me not to talk, my leaders who have been in power for 27 years and I am not allowed to speak.  I get the opportunity to speak here in Qatar, but am not allowed to go back to Egypt and say what I want because my leaders will not allow it.";

Nasser bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, Qatar's Ambassador to Washington until 2007, suggested that far from Arab unity being dead after Gaza, it had never existed even before.

Speaking for the motion he said "since emerging from colonisation we have been ruled by dictators whose only interest is to stay in power".