[lit-ideas] Re: "Stand By Denmark" Rally
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:57:25 -0800 (PST)
From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:11:13 EST
<<Eric, you've told us how important it is to fight
Islam. >>
I don't think it is the notion of anyone (on this
list, at least), that the
West needs to fight Islam -- anymore than we need to
fight Judaism or
Christianity or ...fill in the blank.
*Oh, I wouldn't be too sure. Yes the talk is usually
about Islamism but there is very little attempt to
distinguish between radical Islamism, moderate
Islamism (governments of Turkey, Malaysia, Egypt etc.
all claim to be in Islamic in one way or other),
liberal Islamism, or even just traditional Islam. It
seems that the only way Muslims could be completely
safe from being perceived as enemies would be to
convert to Christianity.
In practice, of course, not all Muslims get treated as
enemies, or even all Islamists. But the decisions seem
to motivated by political interests of the moment
rather than by any intellectual or ethical criteria.
O.K.
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