Source: The Huffington Post:
By Diana Bletter: Writer, Author, ‘The Mom Who Took Off On Her Motorcycle’
Guess who graduated first in this year’s medical school class at the Technion, Israel’s version of M.I.T.? The answer will surprise you. It’s a 27-year-old stereotype-buster: a charming, feminist, smart, open-minded and observant Islamic woman named Mais Ali-Saleh who grew up in a small village outside of Nazareth, in Israel’s Galilee.
Ali-Selah’s academic excellence not only marks her own personal achievement but also proves that contrary to propaganda spouted by proponents of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) Movement — whose latest convert is Stephen Hawking — an academic boycott of Israel is the wrong approach to solving the Israel-Arab conflict. Moreover, it ultimately hurts the very people it claims to help. Ali-Selah put it best when she said, “An academic boycott of Israel is a passive move, and it doesn’t achieve any of its purported objectives.”
After Ali-Selah’s first class at the Technion, in Haifa, northern Israel, she was ready to call it quits. Ali-Selah had studied Hebrew from elementary school through high school but in the predominantly Arab area around Nazareth, she rarely used Hebrew and her vocabulary was limited. During Ali-Selah’s first Chemistry lecture, she couldn’t understand why her professor kept talking about malls. What did shopping malls have to do with Chemistry? She then realized the professor was speaking about moles, a standard scientific unit for measuring quantities of minute entities.
Categories: Asia
It is a lesson for underachiever Muslims who attribute all their failures to discrimination rather than own laziness.
To the only commentator, Anwar:
Who told you Muslims are lazy? If they were, they’d have been conquered forever like the “Red Indians” of the Americas, or they wouldn’t have built the only human civilizations worthy of utmost, total pride, esp. in Spain!!! Muslims are not ‘underachievers’!!! They are targetted by the Western powers to remain underdeveloped and never achieve anything positive in their world, from politics to economics!!! We are not allowed to become once again what we once were!!! The West wants us on our knees foever, knowing that if we were allowed a small breather, we’ll jump right to the top of the pyramid among human groups because of the driving forces that we have: unified, clear, simple religion, the Arabic language, geographical unity, an annual summit at Makkah in Arabia!!!!!! So before you talk, learn something about the reality of the world you’re living in, mister!!!
Goodness,kindness and hard work makes its way even in harsh surroundings, criticism and atmosphere.