In a message dated 3/14/1999 10:22:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< In her mental dictionary, all whites are by definition racist and all men
are by definition racist, and therefore legitimate targets of her hate-filled
rhetoric. She has now reverted to suicide jihad mode >>
I have not called all white people racist, as many white people on this list
can attest.
Jihad - comes from the jahada, which means to struggle. It by definition does
not indicate anything that means suicide. It can be any kind of struggle, a
jihad can be a struggle for liberation from oppression, a jihad can be a
struggle with your own goals.
The view of "jihad" that you have presented is an example of how biases and
media distortion make some people feel that are educated enough to use a word
against someone while having no full sense of what it means. Yet such people
do not accept that they have distorted the meaning of the word and they
contribute to the bias. It is unfortunate.
Nicole
