[lit-ideas] Re: The need for anti-Americanism...

  • From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:19:17 +0100

>No one on Lit Ideas thought that interesting enough to respond to, 

no one was interested in responding to your post about it, perhaps.

Reports and discussions about it can be found at opendemocracy (that well known
'anti-American' site)


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lawrence Helm 
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 7:09 PM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The need for anti-Americanism...


  Oh no you don't.  You can't take my use of the term out of context.  I have 
this day been referring to the knee-jerk anti-Americans who always blame 
America first.  If there is a conflict involving Americans, these people assume 
the Americans are to blame.  Also, these people never blame the Jihadists.  We 
are in a war against Islamism, but they blame America and not the murderous 
Islamists.  That is the context.  Do you still want to be on my anti-American 
list?

  Note, I posted an article about a Swedish cartoonist. Lars Vilks (see 
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0918/p99s01-duts.html ) who created a cartoon 
making fun of Mohammad.  He was immediately threatened with death.  No one on 
Lit Ideas thought that interesting enough to respond to, or perhaps it is just 
that this isn't really news -- it happens all the time because intrinsic in the 
most popular Islamic theological position of today is the command to kill 
infidels.  Mohammad says Allah commands it.  Therefore, according to this 
Islamic religious position those who insult Islam or Mohammad should be killed 
immediately.  The rest of us can be killed on a more casual basis.  So, who 
cares?

  Lawrence




  ------------Original Message------------
  From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Date: Wed, Sep-19-2007 10:54 AM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The need for anti-Americanism...

  Responding only to Lawrence's continued use of the epithet:  
  anti:American....

  We might remind ourselves that the Germans who opposed Hitler's policies 
  in 1930's and 1940's Germany were villified as anti-German.   But 
  weren't they the ones upholding German values that the Nazis were 
  abandoning?    One man's freedom-fighter...and all that.

  Ursula (proud to be on Lawrence's list of anti-Americans...)

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  Lawrence Helm wrote:
  > As usual, the anti-American Andreas has it all wrong. 

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