Another Article About Jane in the Yemen Times
but this one is VERY NICE. The senior editor is responding the article that got snuck in: “Jane Novak a docile student of a monkey monk.” (I hope one day to learn who the monkey monk was supposed to be. I never quite figured that out.)
For this, I think Jane Novak is due an apology from the YT, for allowing such derogatory language to be used on a good friend of the YT and I take the liberty of expressing the sincere apology for this editorial oversight. I realize that Jane has been allowed the right to respond to the article by Mr. Yahya Al-Olfi against Ms. Novak, but this observer is compelled to express an assurance that the opinions expressed by Mr. Olfi are purely his own and are not shared by the Editors of the Yemen Times…I will not delve into the issues and points raised by Mr. Olfi, because the astute observer sees no merit in arguing for or against criticism that is based on engrained biases and stereotypes that do not reflect any intellectual maturity or objective assessment of the contents of Ms. Novak’s observations.
Wow. Thats so nice, there’s more.
(But for the record, I have never been to Yemen. Morocco, yes. Yemen, no.)
Gordon: Did you think you would ever hear something like this from a paper in the Middle East? Heck, I’d dance a jig if the San Francisco Chronicle even paid lip service to these principles…Bravo to the Yemen Times.
Also Gordo’s got a nice phote of Olify, the author of the orginal monkey monk piece.
