BS: Waiting for Moderate Arab Voices...

Subject: RE: BS: Waiting for Moderate Arab Voices...
From: Gervase
Date: 23 Dec 05 - 05:40 AM

No, you clot, I was merely asking why you brought it to our attention. And the reason was...?
I've noticed that you seem to do an awful lot of cut and paste on CNN links. I'm afraid that doesn't make you an informed commentator on foreign affairs.
In case you still don't get the message, What is your point?

Subject: RE: BS: Waiting for Moderate Arab Voices...
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Dec 05 - 04:48 AM

Gervase,

So, rather than critisize the person MAKING the statement,you attack me for bringing it to your attention. That sounds like the limit of your intellectual ability.


"Arab governments and media did not condemn Ahmadinejad's remarks"

Subject: RE: BS: Waiting for Moderate Arab Voices...
From: Terry K
Date: 23 Dec 05 - 04:44 AM

Ah, but would beardedbruce's bullshit work as well as cowshit?

Subject: RE: BS: Waiting for Moderate Arab Voices...
From: Gervase
Date: 23 Dec 05 - 04:39 AM

Sorry, fted, you're right! I did use the word 'hawk', though, so there's a plastering reference...

Subject: RE: BS: Waiting for Moderate Arab Voices...
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 Dec 05 - 04:26 AM

I agree, Wilfried.

Subject: RE: BS: Waiting for Moderate Arab Voices...
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 23 Dec 05 - 04:22 AM

Well said, Gervase. The average and reasonable is not mediaworthy.
I know a lot of Arabs - Muslims and Christians - with very moderate opinions, but they will never make it to the newspapers.

Subject: RE: BS: Waiting for Moderate Arab Voices...
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 23 Dec 05 - 04:18 AM

Gervase,
       Shouldn't you be plastering something?

Subject: RE: BS: Waiting for Moderate Arab Voices...
From: Gervase
Date: 23 Dec 05 - 04:15 AM

Islamic does not fully equate to Arab, just as Christian does not fully equate to Western. There are plenty of moderate Arab voices around.
In the current climate, however, their views are not as newsworthy to the western media (particularly the US media) as those of the hawks and tub-thumpers.
So what point, exactly, is Bearded Bruce trying to make? Is he hoping that we'll all leap up and say "Yee Haw, these crazy rag-heads, they're all mad. Let's just nuke 'em. Heck the only good Ayrad is a dead Ayrab."? What a super way to foster understanding and trust between cultures!
A shame, though, that the US military planning and diplomatic circles seem to be full of intellectual pygmies like Bearded Bruce.

Subject: RE: BS: Waiting for Moderate Arab Voices...
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Dec 05 - 01:27 AM

What's new, no offence.

Subject: BS: Waiting for Moderate Arab Voices...
From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 23 Dec 05 - 01:24 AM

"CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- The leader of Egypt's main Islamic opposition group said Thursday the Holocaust was a "myth," and he slammed Western governments for criticizing disclaimers of the Jewish genocide."


"Similar comments by Ahmadinejad earlier this month sparked an international outcry. The Iranian president called the Holocaust -- in which an estimated 6 million Jews were killed -- a "myth" and said Europeans have used it to create a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world. (Full story)

He also said Israel should be "wiped off the map."

Arab governments and media did not condemn Ahmadinejad's remarks."


http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/12/22/muslim.brotherhood.ap/index.html