>From: "Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" (Brin-L) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Wiesenthal Ctr Report >Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:36:28 +0200 > I wrote: > > By your analogy, out of fear, Norway and the world should have barred > > Americans from their soil, and certainly kept them from entering into > > public places like hotels, airports, restaurants, movie theaters, > > supermarkets and street corners to protect against retaliation. > Jeroen replied: >I am not advocating barring anyone from going anywhere. In my post I did >not >give my opinion on what happened, I offered an alternative explanation to >counter the immediate assumption that what happened is based in >anti-Semitism. >
I did not say that you were advocating barring anyone from going anywhere. What I said was that if your explanation of the Norwegian actions were to be an accurate one, then there should have been a precedent established by similar actions on their part based on their fear of retaliation from the terrorists who attacked America. We did not hear of Americans being removed from the Norwegian Parliament for wearing American flags on their jackets. They did nothing to American tourists, but they are doing something to at least one Israeli tourist. For this action to _not_ be anti-semitism, the Norwegians would hold everyone who is under attack by terrorists to the same standard. They do not, and therefore it is appropriate to assume that there are other motivating factors. It is reasonable to suggest that a motivating factor for making someone remove a Jewish religious symbol is racism against Jews. Your explanation that it is not seems inaccurate since the Norwegians are not acting against anyone else who is in danger of being attacked by terrorists. >Occams Razor: Racism and anti-Semitism is alive and well in Norway. > >Occams Razor: anti-Europeanism is alive and well in the United States. > That may well be so, but your explanation does not refute my statement. I would like to point out again, as I did yesterday when I replied to Marvin's original post... that I assume that this was not the "official" reaction of the Norwegian Parliament... merely an overzealous security guard. Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
