Saturday, January 13, 2007

Our Children...and "Their Children." Raymond Jbara (a dramatist from Lebanonesia) often writes sexist, racist, and sectarian articles but in the culture industry of the country, he is considered a "liberal." Nobody has reacted in the Lebanese press to this particularly sectarian piece; he says: "Our children and grandchildren did not come by accident, or just to increase numbers. But they came from a blessing from God." He wrote this in Mulhaq An-Nahar--considered the most liberal arm of the right-wing, sectarian Christian media house of An-Nahar.