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Queen Rania’s Book On Tolerance Excludes Jews Next Door
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How about this story for irony! Queen Rania of Jordan, a country supposedly at peace with Israel, has recently written a book on tolerance—specifically about bridging the cultural gap between the Arab world and the Western world—but, somehow that tolerance doesn’t extend to the Jews living next door!
Tom Gross reports on this:
Jordan’s Queen Rania says she is on a mission to bridge the religious and cultural divides between the Muslim and Western worlds. To help advance this worthy goal, she has written a children’s book (for kids aged 4-8) called “The Sandwich Swap”.
The book uses lunch sandwiches (the Western girl, Lily, has a peanut butter and jelly one, the Muslim girl, Salma, has one with pita and hummus) as a metaphor for the differences between two friends from different cultures.
The book’s aim is to promote openness, tolerance and multiculturalism, and in the U.S. it has been published by a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.
Following high-profile TV interviews between Queen Rania and Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters, and a reading at the United Nations, the book has entered The New York Times’ bestseller list.
And yet Queen Rania, who since 2007 has been working with UNICEF on child welfare issues and is honorary chairwoman of the UN’s effort to promote the education of girls, has (according to press reports) now refused offers to have her book published in Hebrew for distribution in Israel, a country with which Jordan has signed a peace treaty.
So much for the UN and Queen Rania promoting tolerance.
read this:
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/07/15/2740056/queen-did-not-have-hebrew-book-offer-jordanian-officials-say
or the article on the subject in Haaretz:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/jordan-queen-rania-never-got-offer-to-publish-hebrew-translation-of-her-book-say-official-sources-1.302169
Oh my comment (I made more than 24 hours ago) is still awaiting moderation. Why? Is it because you are only ready to accept negative comments on Muslims? Where is your tolerance?
Um, no. It’s because I actually have a job and some other responsibilities that don’t have anything to do with this blog and, as a result, I am unable to check comments daily.
I have plenty of tolerance. On the other hand, where is your benefit of the doubt?
As for the links themselves, they are nice, but they only shift the blame from the Queen to her publishers. Why did her publishers refuse the offer? It doesn’t say. Did they pass the offer on to the Queen? It doesn’t say. Were they speaking out of turn and not on behalf of the Queen when they refused the offer? It doesn’t say, and if so, the Queen never said how she would rectify the situation.
In short, all the Queen said is that she never directly got the offer. What she *didn’t* say is whether she knew of it, whether her publishers were told to refuse it, what she’s going to do about it going forward, or anything else of substance.
Nice piece of fluff.