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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mustafa, I would appreciate it if you refrained from introducing red herrings on this thread, religious or otherwise. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>On the other hand, if you really insist taking such deep offense about RNIB’s fundraising techniques, please go ahead and enjoy venting your lone anger... Just do not be surprised if you do not always find world-wide sympathy for it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>G.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Blind-international-students [mailto:blind-international-students-bounces@nfbnet.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Mostafa Al'mahdy<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 15, 2013 8:58 PM<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Undisclosed-Recipient:;<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Blind-international-students] Responding to (help emma video).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=5 color=blue face=Aharoni><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Aharoni","serif";color:blue'>Hello. I received various reactions about my previous post. Well, I suppose that it is quite natural to have different opinions, and to disagree on any subject. But, it's quite self-explanatory to be courteous, to make sense, and to not be irrelevent as we show our disagreement as well. I emphatically consider this video to be tremendously disgraceful, offensive, and downgrading to blind people dignity. It pretty much sounded like someone sitting on the pavement, just raising his hands for money. Well, a beggar. If any charitable association in the world wants to encourage people to donate, to fundraise for its activities, well, there are many respectful ways to do so. They can organize for benevolent parties, where people buy tickets, they can get sponsored for their event, and they can sell products on display. That's just for instance. If someone thought it's fine to be mendicant, well he then should carry that out on his own. But he absolutely has no right to extrapolate his concepts, so it's to avoid destroying the mass reputation of certain people. Blind people are perfectly dignified, and this video is quite </span></font></b></strong><font color=blue><span style='color:blue'>derogatory to the one who made and published it to say the least. I have many blind friends who labeled this video as derogative, offensive, and it's actually very insulting to blind people. Here you go, so you can reassess.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2cJLF1qVpI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2cJLF1qVpI</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>To seek for positive tendency, here is a video that promotes for blind people achievements.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR9HgwRQgW4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR9HgwRQgW4</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'> </span></font><strong><b><font size=5 color=blue face=Aharoni><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Aharoni","serif";color:blue'> </span></font></b></strong><font size=5 color=blue face=Aharoni><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Aharoni","serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=5 color=blue face=Aharoni><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Aharoni","serif";color:blue'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=5 color=blue face=Aharoni><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Aharoni","serif";color:blue'>The purpose of each video is quite obvious by contrast. Blind people can achieve anything, if only they wanted to. Taha Hussein achieved the most highest level of academia, he prosperously attained the most prestigious degree of professorship of his time, and he excellently was granted many domestic and international academic awards on Literature, Novelty, and ancient Philosophy. He was quite popular for his sarcastically political articles, his liberal views, and his modernized way of thinking. He was recognized as the dean of Arabic literature, the chief of Cairo University, the secretary of education, and ultimately, he was entitled to (Nobel Prise) on literature. Yet at his time, there was no any significant aid to blind people. There was no braille printing, no audible libraries, and there was no adaptive technology provided for him. His only way to read anything, is just to rely on sighted assistance. He fought, strived, and struggled, so he finally arived. It's quite a shame on us if we have all of this advanced technology provided for us, and most of us can't even reach the half of what he was. Well, I am not trying to write an essay for my English class, just in case if someone attempted to ridicule. Well it's time to go pray. It's dawn prayer. If someone trys to put words on my mouth, I will simply ignore him. If someone shows radical notion, I will basicly dismiss him. If someone assaults Islam, and he thinks it's a good idea, I will basicly disregard him, or her. Mostafa. </span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><hr noshade="noshade" size="1"><a></a><p class=""avgcert"" align="left" color="#000000">No virus found in this message.<br>
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