From: khaled Alkotob (khaledsa@juno.com)
Date: Fri Sep 23 2005 - 16:27:38 BST
Hello Mike
This is part 2 of my ranting.
When the US liberated Baghdad, there was hope, but then Abu Ghraib and
Guantanamo came knocking. It went to show that it does not matter what
kind of government you have, you an commit torture and brutality but it's
how you "say" it.
The Madison avenue group must have been working overtime to come up with
"Enemy Noncombatant". Funny we armed these people when they were fighting
the soviets.
Fundamental, such actions proved that every type of government has its
monsters, so they would rather stick with he ones they know. Yes after
the Iranian revolution they had their fair share of such things, yet the
Iraqi people would be willing to say I would rather have a monster I know
than a "foreign Christian" monster I don't know.
Look what happened to the Afghani flag after we helped throw the Talibans
out. It now has God's name on it. It's now the Islamic republic of
Afghanistan. Next would be Iraq, when they tried to redesign the flag all
hell broke loose. the word ( Allahu Akbar, God is Greater/ Almighty God)
was on the flag as an after thought put on during the war with Iran, now
it has been written on with proper Kufi Calligraphy. It will be the
Islamic republic of Iraq.
We accuse poor counties around the world, especially Africa of being
corrupt. and we ask that they reform.
When the do, and you have someone who is willing to work and give tot he
people we accuse him of being a communist. Say Hello to Hugo Chavez.
Michael Hamilton <thethemichael@gmail.com> writes:
>>
> Now, if "freedom" is the ability to follow one's own sense of value
> without undue restriction by the overarching social value systems of
> government, (I made that up as I went along, what do you think of it
> as a definition?) it follows that the peoples of the Middle East, if
> given the genuine freedom of which we are both supporters, will apply
> their freedom differently to the way we apply it, because their
> values
> are different.
>
> I realise that I'm speaking about these cultural value differences in
> an extremely vague way, because my knowledge of Islamic culture is
> very limited. Khaled, perhaps you might have something to say about
> mainstream, moderate Islamic views on democracy and freedom?
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike
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