--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you know that fighting Muslims is a long established tradition of > the USA? Indeed, the very first war America engaged in -- initiated > not by Congress but by Thomas Jefferson who sent the Marines -- was > against a Muslim nation: the Ottoman Empire. > > That's why that Marine song which we're all familiar with starts off: > > "From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli..." >
************************ >From "House of War," by James Carroll, p.138: "Paranoid thinking consists of a twin dynamic: fear of an enemy outside is accompanied by a fear of an enemy inside. This pattern was firmly implanted in Western consciousness during the Crusades, when Christendom mobilized against the Islamic infidel in possession of the Holy Land. But no sooner was the First Crusade launched against the Muslim enemy outside, with Pope Urban II's cry "God wills it!" in 1095, than crusaders attacked, in the spring of 1096, the infidel inside: the Jews living in cities along the Rhine. This was Europe's first pogrom. Nearby Jews were not physically at risk until faraway Muslims were attacked. In the Christian mind, fear of the enemy outside became fear of the enemy inside. The same dynamic came into play in the United States, where a subliminal "paranoid streak" had long had its effect." http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/216 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
