My guess, Professor Standish, from what I have seen and heard from academics is something of a sympathy for Islamist behavior, For example, the need to explain away Jihad actions, is always cast as possible retaliation for what the US has done or Australia, Israel, Canada, France, New South Wales, whomever the viewed 'occupier-war monger' is. This is the usual 'distancing' language employed. A person may not kneel to Mecca along with the Uma, 5 times a day, but if they both have the same enemies, ideology does makes strange bedfellows, so to speak. This is what I oppose, and consider to be self-destructive to our respective, nation states. Despite my emails, I generally am at least, somewhat intellectual, and nothing of a Luddite, but sort of view the 800 lb. (or kg.) simian in the room, as radical Islam, and not Jimmy Christian, not Vijaya the Magnificent, not Bubba Buddha, Kung Fu Tze, or his smarter, brother, Don Dao. It's the blokes who say the shahaada, first thing in the a.m. that are costing lives now. So, if this is true, what to do? One thing would be for academics to step forward in favor of human rights in the Dar es Salaam, the House of Peace, aka, the Muslim World. Sort of a massive global project. This would be good.
But to restate - nobody I know is a jihadist or islamist apologist, not even the muslims I know. -----Original Message----- From: Russell Standish <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 9:38 pm Subject: Re: Life in the Islamic State for women On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 09:27:16AM -0400, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: > Russell, > > > This is because academics, worldwide, tend toward the left, and they tend to it like a religion, but its more an ideology. An ideology being a faith movement. In the US, the academics (nominally all leftists) lean strongly in favor of islamists, worldwide. This could, in part, be that the Saudis (America's best friend!) have thrown their money around to greedy pols. I could send you news reports of the welcoming embrace, and statements of the islamists, but if you're a convinced leftist, you won't budge a millimeter-to quote old, adolf. I have the sales capabilities of maggot and thus, will never be able to sell stocks and bonds or widgets. The people that do like your current Rightist guy, in Australia, are likely not in academia. In the US, this is called flyover country. Your clique are academics, thus everyone you know bends left, and the rest are seen as ignorant rubes. I mean, somebody elected elected Tom Abbot, correct? > The general election was more of a protest vote against the previous government, which had become so odious (whether real or perceived), that the majority decided to go with Tony Abbott's lot. Tony Abbott's personal popularity has never been above about 30%, well below the the opposition leader as preferred prime minister. But personal popularity often doesn't have much to do with it, unlike a presidential system, I guess. Yes - someone elected Tony Abbott. The Liberal party of Australia elected him, by one vote over his rival Malcolm Turnbull (a far more popular leader). Since gaining government, Tony Abbott's popularity has sunk dramatically, so much so that the Liberal Party recently voted on a spill motion, which Tony narrowly won (ie was not spilled). We live in interesting times indeed. Yes academic people do tend to be "centralist", or "progressive", which in the current state of politics lies somewhat left of the Labor party, the traditional "leftist" party in Australia. But I mix with a variety of people, not just academics, but most tend to be fairly well educated nevertheless. I would say all of them are left of Tony Abbott, however, even though they may be natural Liberal Party supporters. But to restate - nobody I know is a jihadist or islamist apologist, not even the muslims I know. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
