I’m doing research on terrorism, and I’ve put together a pre-survey questionnaire that I’m circulating in order to get feedback on what a non-biased (non-western, non-white) survey might look like. The final survey will go out later this year.

The survey can be accessed at johnmaszka.com/SURVEY.html

Would you post it, and possibly circulate it? I’m very interested in incorporating the views of women, non-whites, and people living outside of America and Western Europe.

I’d appreciate it.

Thanks!
Take care,

John Maszka

“I am not trying to regain rights,” she said, “but what I believe in is that women themselves are responsible for giving up their own rights when they believe in the notions that view them as second-class citizens. This feeling may have resulted from the beliefs and the teachings in the society they were raised in. In our station’s programming, we stress firmly the fact that a woman is not different from a man in her rights and duties.”

I applaud Amany’s efforts to empower women in the Middle East, and see those efforts as being at the heart of what is needed to point to the possibility of peace in that region.

For too long, women, in many parts of the world, are either forced or convinced to assume a second class position when it comes to their God given rights. In that context, it is easy for some of the men to go off the deep end when it comes to ideological extremism. If women are empowered, as Amany is doing, then the moderating influence of the feminine mystique will take hold and will counter the more extremist elements in some societies. For the most part, as the givers of life, and as the caretakers of life, most women have little patience for violence or ideological nonsense, and are therefore best able to reconstitute their societies consistent with a vision of hope.