An interesting exchange. A forthright and brave Arab woman. I don’t agree with everything here. Shams Bandar — that’s her name — is a Saudi/Kuwaiti singer. In this interview, she’s somewhat mischaracterizing and oversimplifying 1400 years of Islamic history, for instance, and contrasting it too starkly with much of Europe’s history over the same period. The West hasn’t always been that good. And the interviewer’s notion that it’s the West that has caused all of... Read more