[lit-ideas] Re: 21. century European anti-Semitism
- From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:12:59 +0900
Thanks for the correction.
John
(who is still bucked by the UMNO/BN sweep)
On 2004/04/19, at 12:08, Omar Kusturica wrote:
>
> --- John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am feeling somewhat bucked by a
>> piece in this morning's
>> Japan Times describing the sweeping victory of UMNO
>> and its BN partners
>> in the recent elections in Malaysia--the first time
>> in recent history
>> that a moderate party that espouses racial and
>> ethnic tolerance has
>> soundly trounced an Islamic fundamentalist
>> opposition. in a country
>> where Muslims are in the majority.
>
> There were presidential elections in Algeria lately,
> and they were won by the incumbent president
> Bouteflika, not an Islamic fundamentalist by anyone's
> reckoning. There were parliamentary elections in
> Jordan in 2003, and they were not won by Islamic
> fundamentalists. Whether this will bring significant
> changes for the better remains to be seen, but frankly
> one is skeptical.
>
> Indonesia, too, has an allegedly moderate, certainly
> not an Islamist, party in power, which got there
> through elections. (Unfortunately, this party, mainly
> based in Java, turned out to oppress the populations
> of Aceh and West Papua, which happen to be more
> traditional Islamic.) Indonesia is probably listening
> to the wind of change now, as we can see from this
> infromative article:
>
> http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/FD17Ae04.html
>
> The Islamist parties may gain strength but they are
> not likely to be in power. In Sudan, too, there were
> elections in recent memory (January 2001, "deemed
> fair"), and they did not bring Islamic fundamentalists
> to power. (Though there is a significant Islamist
> opposition, whose leader, Hassan Al-Turabi, has been
> jailed recently.) But unfortunately the Sudanese
> government is now engaged in a veritable ethnic
> cleansing of the Muslim non-Arab populations in the
> West of country.
>
> It may be infered from this that I find the remarks,
> with their implicit contrast between the "moderate"
> and "Islamic fundamentalist" forces, rather
> simplistic.
>
> O.K.
>
>
> =09
> =09
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