[lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of Defeat

  • From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:51:35 -0500

Lawrence, you're seeing things that aren't there. What in Mike's note (below) prompted this response? You accuse us of knee-jerk reactions, but who's really jerking here? 

US

Lawrence Helm wrote:
Now you guys who don’t like or defend Saddam Hussein are back to defending him. 


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From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Geary 
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 10:26 PM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of Defeat

LH:


There really is an ideology variously called Islamism, Islamic



Fundamentalism and a few other things. It really was firmed up by Sayyid



Qutb and it has swept the Middle East.<<


I agree with you, Lawrence. Copy that sentence and frame it! And, of
course, you recognize that people have the same right to believe in Islamism 

as in Christian Evangelism and in Islamic Fudamentalism as in Christian

Fundamentalism. Belief is no crime. Only acts are crimes. Only those who
commit crimes are our enemy, not those who cheer on the criminals (I cheer 

on bank robbers), or wish they were themselves criminals, only the people

who commit crimes are criminals. It makes the world more complicated, I
agree. But it separates us from the barbarism of people like Saddam Hussein 

who would kill not just those who tried to assassinate him, but all his

family as well.

Mike Geary

Memphis




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