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For Mario to refer to "socialist meccas" in Europe indicates that he hasn't
got a clue how capitalist are the countries he refers to.
Cornel
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From: "Mario Goveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [Goanet] Re: Irrelevant topics,and Goans and African
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--- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>In the meantime, I wish Victor or some other
>knee-jerk critic of the US would spare a few
minutes considering what is currently going on with
>minorities in the socialist meccas of Holland and
>France, not to mention the ghettoes of Britain.
>
Why is Islam being denigrated here with this
derogatory association of Mecca with socialism and
the ghettos?
Mario replies:
It looks like Santosh is trying to obfuscate the point
I was making by a misleading and over-sensitive
interpretation of an English "figure of speech" I
used, leading to a false allegation that I was
denigrating Islam.
Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of colloquial
English would know that there was no reference to
religion or to Mecca, the center of the Islamic
religion, in my post under reference. I did not use
the word Mecca - with a capital M. Thus Mecca was
not being denigrated as Santosh has falsely claimed.
I was referring to "socialist meccas", which, in
English would mean major centers of socialism.
In the meantime, Santosh apparently has nothing to say
about the plight of minorities in the socialist meccas
of Holland and France, which was what I had referred
to in my post.
