RE: We will Survive

Having gone to college with a lot of Muslims, I've got to say that my
personal experience doesn't parallel yours at all.  BTW Persians aren't
Arabs--if the criterion is language and culture.  Their language is
unrelated to Arabic, and they entered the Middle East in a different wave of
migration from a different place.  I believe that's part of the reason Iraq
and Iran aren't close friends.


We have enough rabid intolerance in the US that we can't afford to criticise
others for being like us.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil [mailto:sublime78ska@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 4:23 PM
> To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: We will Survive
>
>
> >
> > Mark,
> >
> > As much as I understand your anger, I think you're letting your
> > emotions get
> > in the way of reason. Not all Arabs are America-hating
> place-crashing
> > killers,
>
> I keep hearing this but I haven't met any who aren't.  When I
> was in high
> school, a lot of Iranians moved in because of the Shah being
> overturned by
> Khomeni.  You'd think we would have had something in common -
> our marines
> being held hostage and these kids being refugees.  But no,
> they hated us
> more than Khomeni.  Persians, arabs - close enough.  Both
> muslims, I think.
> Those muslims in Libya hate our guts too.  I do believe the
> muslims in Syria
> aren't too fond of us either.  Oh, and those muslims in Iraq
> would like to
> see us wiped off the face of the earth.  Even the
> Palestinians, who without
> us would still be in a no mans land between Jordan (fellow
> arabs who refused
> them) and Israel, hate us. The fundamentalist muslims in
> Egypt hate us too.
> The Taleban hates every Christian.  In case you haven't
> noticed, they are
> extremely oppressive to their own citizens in Afganistan,
> especially women.
> And they arrested 8 westerners and charged them with
> spreading Christianity!
> I don't think the Nation of Islam is too fond of us either
> and they ARE
> Americans. (Does that make them self-hating Americans?)  And
> all of them
> hate Jews.  Let's not leave out Abu Sayef!, the muslim
> terrorists-for-profit
> in some islands near the Philippines.  They kidnap tourists
> on the beach and
> hold them for ransom.  Last year they got millions in
> exchange for a German
> family and others.  Last I heard they kidnapped a man from Chino,
> California, and claimed to have beheaded him.
>
> I've lived my whole life knowing Muslims hate and kill
> Americans.  Excuse me
> if I use my powers of observation and discrimination to instantly
> distinguish between friend and foe.  Let the foe prove he is really a
> friend.  It is his burden, not mine.
>
> Phil
>
>
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