Greetings, Brad, I've suggested before that a good way to test one's stereotypes is to take an active step to meet people. The odds are that you live fairly close to Muslims and Arabs, including Palestinians. You could easily enough pick up the phone for an Arab or Muslim organization, say you are interested and ask to meet them.
Substitute for the word Palestinian in your statement some other -- like Jew, Christian, Argentinean, Hindu, or whatever -- and you will readily see how stereotyped and unfortunate your comment is.... I do hope you do this; I think you will be in for a pleasant surprise. And I would be most interested in hearing back from you on how it went. Best regards, Lawry > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brad > McCormick, Ed.D. > Sent: Thu, August 28, 2003 7:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Futurework] The shining city on a hill.... > > > Ysterday, in a History Channel program about icebreakers > (the ships that can "cut thru the stuff"...), they said that > Israel some years ago purchased a no longer state of the art, > but nonetheless heavy-duty *ice breaker* from the U.S. Navy. > What in heaven or purgatory or hell does Israel need > with an *ice breaker*? But I suspect they *do* have > some very "good" use for its 2-inch thick steel hull with > all those closely spaced reinforcing beams all down the > hull and super-powerful engines.... > > Today's news is that the Israelis succeeded in blowing > up a Hamas leader who was travelling in a residential > neighborhood in a donkey cart. > > Doesn't anybody think there is something "asymmetrical" > about using F-16s to launch missiles to blow up Hamas > leaders being driven in their Mercedes-Benzes? > > I doubt I'd like most "Palestineans" (although I did once > meet a self-avowed Muslim Syrian employee of the U.N. who > genuinely surprised me as being an apparently > humanistic individual...). But if the Israelis > were "anybody else", would we all see them > as such exemplary paragon > citizens of the shining city on a hill? > > I can only conclude that I misread the story of > King Solomon's judgment about the two women and the > baby. But then I only claim to know secular hermeneutics.... > > \brad mccormick > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
