Ravi, Excellent point. "Political Islam" is an example of Islamophobia (Chapter 8). Galloway's comment may be also, but I prefer to see the whole context of what he wrote before I would judge.
Paul Z. *************************************************************** THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF 9-11-2001, P.Zarembka, ed, Elsevier, 2006 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka/volume23.htm *************************************************************** On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, ravi wrote: > At around 13/6/06 2:54 pm, Jim Devine wrote: > > On Jun 13, 2006, at 12:00 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > >> > It is a fact that political Islam embraces terrorism. > > > > On 6/13/06, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I think a lot of 9/11 conspiracists don't want to accept that as a fact. > > > > I've never understood this kind of idea, which is common among what > > used be called "third worldists." Some see the US as the source of all > > evil. But then, why did China and Vietnam come to blows? > > > > What is "political Islam"? Does it include the Muslim League in India? > Would this sentence also be valid if modified as "It is a fact that > political Christianity embraces terrorism"? Or "political Judaism"? Or > "political Hinduism"? (BJP/VHP/Shiv Sena/RSS). > > I am not a "9/11 conpiracist" but even I am unwilling to accept such a > broad statement! > > Also, it seems to me: whether "political Islam" embraces "terrorism" or > not, or whether 9/11 "conspiracists" accept that or not, does not say > much about whether the 9/11 story is different from what we have been told. > > --ravi > > -- > Support something better than yourself: ;-) > PeTA: http://www.peta.org/ > GreenPeace: http://www.greenpeace.org/ > > >
