| Francisco van Jole on Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:19:02 +0200 (CEST) | 
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| [Nettime-nl] Fighting Islam's Ku Klux Klan | 
| Een van de eerste reacties op de aanslagen van 11 september 
kwam van Felipe Rodriquez die stelde dat het Westen en Israel zich 
nu moesten afvragen waarom ze zo gehaat worden. Ik vond dat een verkeerde 
logica. Afgelopen zondag schreef de Iraakse dissident Kanan Makiya een helder 
betoog in de Briste Observer waarin hij onder meer uitlegt waarom de vraag van 
Felipe niet aan de orde is. Hij verwoordt het vele malen beter dan ik ooit zou 
kunnen: "This is not Islam any more than the Ku Klux Klan is 
Christianity. No concessions can be made to either mindset which have more in 
common with one another than they do with the religions they claim to 
represent.  To argue, as many Arabs and Muslims are doing today (and not a 
few liberal Western voices), that 'Americans should ask themselves why they are 
so hated in the world' is to make such a concession; it is to provide a 
justification, however unwittingly, for this kind of warped mindset. The 
thinking is the same as the 'linkage' dreamed up by Saddam Hussein when he tried 
to get the Arab world to believe that he had occupied Kuwait in 1990 in order to 
liberate Palestine. The difference being that if the argument was intellectually 
vacuous then, it is a thousand times more so now." (via http://www.aldaily.com/ ) vriendelijke groet, FvJ |