----- Original Message -----
From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "BRIN-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World


> on 3/10/02 2:00 am, Robert Seeberger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >> We obviously use different definitions in the Old World.
> >>
> >
> > Nope, you use more sophistry in the old world.
> > Your definition of "anti-semite" is virtually the same as ours.
> > Yet you *choose* to add definitions of other terms into the mix in order
to
> > justify your prejudices.
>
> It seems more likely you choose to remove them.
>
> > (Those prejudices are not necessarily anti-semitism BTW)
> > You will notice that no one has brought forth a definition that defines
> > "anti-semite" as a hater of middle eastern people.
>
> Why not use a different term then?
>
> > That is because the term "anti-semite" has a specific definition that is
> > derived, not from dictionary use, but from language use over a very long
> > period of time.
> > You just dont see the term used in any other way.
>
> I already quoted a dictionary.
>
One that specified Jews and no one else specificly.

xponent
I Can Read Maru
rob


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