From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Sat Jul 23 2005 - 18:28:51 BST
Hi all,
I find comments like those posted below my sig block to be racist,
and highly offensive. They are also politically and historically
ill-informed, but that I expect from certain quarters. I let the
first one go, but it seems that such comments are occurring more
frequently. Just wondering if anyone else agrees.
Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
-- InfoPro Consulting - The Professional Information Processors Custom Software Solutions for Windows, PDAs, and the Web Since 1983 Web Site: http://www.infoproconsulting.com But to say that my unique experiences and intellectual patterns combined with yours and that terrorist over there by the camel somehow comprise a "collective consciousness" stretches credulity. > In Africa for instance Islam may be a very good idea as a shore > against biological (sex) drives of the Central African population > where AIDS threatens to wipe out whole generations. Now there's an idea I hadn't ever considered. Old Victorian morality might serve the same purpose without the ancillary evils of the Islamic . social code. > But in > Europe and USA Islam it's a failure and what the fanatics hope to > achieve is a great puzzle. If anything the terror attacks has just > alienated the Western population (some Norwegian women who earlier > had found headscarves and submission was romantic have now come to > their senses) > > But - sigh - social value is not reason, it is emotions, thus > reasonable arguments may be wasted and if the terror continues and > the the new recruits come from within, then the Mosques and other > closed quarters will possibly have to be put under surveillance. > There are those who see this as the end of democracy and just what > the terrorists want, but during WW2 the Japanese in USA were > interned, still, it all returned to normal after the war. Intellect > as a value level will of course not succumb if some of its patterns > temporarily is suspended . I agree. This business of tolerance and political correctness will get us all killed yet. Here in the states there's a hue and cry against "racial profiling" so that, for instance, bags at subway stations are checked randomly rather than rationally. Not to focus on young olive-skinned men praying to Allah and smelling like flower water with bulky clothes and fiddling nervously with bags is suicidal. MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archives: Aug '98 - Oct '02 - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ Nov '02 Onward - http://www.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/summary.html MD Queries - horse@darkstar.uk.net To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html
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