Jinn of Current Events (2003-Nov-23)


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2003-Nov-23 [this day]

Shhhhh, let's not report on anti-semitism

The FT reports on yet another shameful EU action to hide anti-semitism and its causes: The European Union's racism watchdog has shelved a report on anti-semitism because the study concluded Muslims and pro-Palestinian groups were behind many of the incidents it examined.

As if not mentioning the truth would somehow make the disturbing facts go away. Adherence to the primacy of consciousness (i.e. believing that wishes rule reality) seems to be alive and well in European political and intellectual circles. [this item]

What is the Saudi Embassy buying? to what end?

How can the Saudi embassy spend $300 million a year in the USA? are they funding extremist Islamist schools and groups? terrorist enablers?

Washington Post: The FBI ... has subpoenaed records for dozens of bank accounts belonging to the Saudi Embassy, part of an investigation into whether any of the hundreds of millions of dollars Riyadh spends in the United States each year end up in the hands of Muslim extremists... The wide-ranging investigation into the $300 million a year the Saudi Embassy spends here was launched this summer... [this item]

Terrorism is neither resistance nor guerrilla

Jalal Talabani, current president of the Iraq Governing Council: The enemies of Iraqi freedom are not resistance, a word that evokes the heroism of Poles in the Second World War, nobly battling their occupiers. Nor can those who murder our American liberators, Red Cross workers, U.N. officials and Italian policemen be termed guerrillas. Rather, they are terrorists. They are the thugs and torturers who repressed their fellow Iraqis for 35 years, the perpetrators of genocide, men who butchered hundreds of thousands of Kurds, Marsh Arabs and Shiite Arabs. The creation of an antidemocratic fascist counterrevolution of Baathists and foreign Islamic volunteers, some of whom are from al Qaeda and Ansar al-Islam, is a classic unholy Middle Eastern alliance. [this item]

Thanksgiving: The Characteristically American Celebration

Gary Hull, director of the Program on Values and Ethics in the Marketplace at Duke University: Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday, because this country was the first to create and to value material abundance. It is America that has been the beacon for anyone wanting to escape from poverty and misery. It is America that generated the unprecedented flood of goods that washed away centuries of privation. It is America, by establishing the precondition of production -- political freedom -- that was able to unleash the dynamic, productive energy of its citizens. This should be a source of pride to every self-supporting individual. It is what Thanksgiving is designed to commemorate. But there are those, motivated by hatred for human comfort and happiness, who want to make Thanksgiving into a day of national guilt... [this item]

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