Sawt al-Mara

ours, known as the Switzerland of the East.

Thus the state will have played its natural part, the part of the higher educator: it will have guided the parents who do not know the ways of true upbringing, and eased the task of those who do know them, so that their upbringing may bear its fruit and not be carried off by the sweeping current. And thereafter this sound upbringing which we shall have followed will be reflected upon our future life and our society.

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Mr. Rashad Darghouth, for his part, answers:

My esteemed Madam,

1 — You ask me "who is responsible for the decline of morals in our society?" In my belief those responsible are more than one. They are many — many.

The home, the school, the newspaper and the magazine, the cinema, the university... then the church and the mosque, and the government, of course.

All of these are responsible. Yes! And the greatest in responsibility is the keenest in perception and awareness. But I prefer not to parcel out that responsibility; I make them all share in it, each and every one: from the father who does not watch over the upbringing of his children, or is ignorant of the simplest rules of upbringing... to the mother who abandons the most sacred duties of motherhood, or does not know them... to the school in which the rules of order have come loose, and which turns into a "shop" where minds are trafficked in... to the newspaper or magazine that publishes depravity and folly, in print and in picture, as though it were art or literature...

To the cinema, whose houses have become a temple for the worship of the appetites...

To the university that has sunk below its own level; to the mosque and the church, which shut their eyes to the mote.

To the government, which reflects the condition of all those institu

tions and cannot but be a picture of them. Did they not say: As you are, so shall you be governed?

And what next? The causes of that decline? Can they, one wonders, be confined to particular causes, as we tried to confine those responsible for the decline

within the bounds of the principal "stations" through which man passes — or through which the whirlpool of life carries him — on his way from one world

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