"Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tariq Ali is both a left-winger and of Muslim > origin. In my view, the point he makes below need > to be taken note of, rather than going along > solely with the version largely emerging from the > dominant media perspective.-FN > http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1523821,00.html > > The price of occupation. > > Tariq Ali > Friday July 8, 2005 > The Guardian > Mario replies: Tariq Ali's is precisely the kind of opinion my Israeli friend had predicted from the left. Like Haroon Siddiqui at the Toronto Star, these closet jihadis have infiltrated the mainstream media and use their positions to spread vicious and hateful Islamo-fascist propaganda.
Ali spouts the callous Sunni Muslim point of view, which considers Shia and Kurds as heretics to be exterminated and are enraged that the Taliban and Saddam Hussain have been deposed. Here is a quote from Tariq Ali, which clearly demonstrates his attitude, "Ever since 9/11, I have been arguing that the "war against terror" is immoral and counterproductive. It sanctions the use of state terror - " Fred wants us to consider the opinion of someone who can describe the post 9/11 war on terror - not just the war on Iraq - as immoral and counterproductive. Ali thinks this war on terror "inflames" the tender Muslim sentiments. He does not explain how Bill Clinton's attempt to appease Al Qaeda by looking the other way during the series of attacks against the US throughout the 90's by Al Qaeda, in NY, Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and finally back to NY on 9/11, was productive. He does not explain how finally responding after 9/11 "inflames" people who are continuing to attack you and are escalating their attacks because they are reading your appeasement as weakness. How do you "inflame" someone who has already sworn to kill you and is doing his best to do so? This WW-III was NOT started by the US but by Al Qaeda when Bin Laden declared war on the US in the early 90's, ostensibly because of the US's non-negotiable support for the survival of Israel. Fred wants us to consider the opinion of an individual like Tariq Ali, so blind that he does not know that state terror is what was going on in Afghanistan by the Taliban and in Iraq by the Sunni Baathists. This is the kind of blind Islamo-fascist hatred that Fred is obviously impressed with.
