The Japanese American political scientist Francis Fukuyama published 1992, The End of History and the Last Man. He explained that after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin wall. The end of ideological conflicts and the beginning of a post-political and post-ideological era. Mr. Fukuyama declared the West has won and Western liberal democracy as the final ideological stage of human evolution. The book was criticized, especially by Samuel Huntington in his book published 1993, the Clash of Civilization. Huntington, unlike Fukuyama, thinks there are no universal values, and the world is divided into distinctive cultures and civilizations;. “The Islamic civilization, he wrote, is the most troublesome. People in the Arab world do not share the general suppositions of the Western world”.
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IRAQI JOURNALIST, ACTIVIST, Muntazer al-Zaidi SPEAKS TO BelAhdan TV! بالأحضان
The Shoe Thrower Story.
I have been trying to get a hold of the so-called Shoe Thrower for years. Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi Journalist who threw a shoe at President Bush Jr. in 2008. Sending a message to Bush, “This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog,” yelled al-Zaidi in Arabic as he threw his first shoe towards Bush. “This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq,” he shouted as he threw his second shoe. Bush ducked twice to avoid being hit by the shoes.” I Finally talked to him and had a friendly, insightful conversation . He has been busy organizing and protesting against corruption and injustice in Tahrir Square in Baghdad. On August 11, as he was resting from protesting at his house, I tweeted to him that if we could talk just for a few minutes; he agreed., We Zoomed for almost an hour, he was thoughtful, personal and in a very good mood. I started the conversation by asking him… about
how the shoe-throwing incident blurred his political activities and your struggle for human rights and against political corruption. Many media coverage a hero in the Arab world, celebrity status, shoe manufacturer claimed his shoe was made there, a shoe statue in Tikrit, marriages proposals, book , films, offers, TV series.. .
My Interview with, Muntazer al-Zaidi, in Arabic!!
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