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Well said! I truly hope the current (heartening) global groundswell of
opinion towards peaceful outcomes is realised.
(not really wanting to continue an off-topic thread, but the subject
could not be more serious at this point in time)
Peace and Prosperity,
Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hmab1 <hossamb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [mailto:hossamb@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, 1 March 2003 8:30 AM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> Wow ! Talk about racism !
>
> Samuel Huntington's fallacy is that civilizations, which
> are cultural
> phenomena, can be treated as if they were responsible political
> entities. They identify the members of Islamic civilization not in
> terms of their actions but in terms of what they are.
>
> One can legitimately go to war against Iraq and Iraqis because of
> what the Baghdad government does, since Iraq's citizens have to
> accept responsibility for their government, even if it is a
> despotism.
>
> The same can be said about any country. The American people bear an
> ultimate responsibility for what their government does even if
> citizens individually oppose those actions. However,
> neither Muslims
> nor Americans deserve to die because they are the product of their
> civilizations, whether those civilizations are admirable or not. To
> think otherwise is totalitarian thinking. It is the equivalent of
> racist thinking: the enemy is an enemy not because of what
> he or she
> does but because of what he or she is.
>
> If wars are cultural and religious, they have no solutions.
> They are
> unnegotiable and unresolvable. If the Muslim is an enemy of America
> and Europe because he is a Muslim, and Westerners are his mortal
> enemies because of who they are, all have lost control over their
> futures.
>
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ellie"
> <ellen_stanwick@xxxx> wrote:
> > amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > ____________________________________________________________
> >
> >
> > "The underlying problem for the West is not Islamic
> > fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose
> > people are convinced of the superiority of their culture
> > and are obsessed with the inferiority of the
> > power."
> >
> > -- Samuel Huntington
>
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