-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >In the meantime, I wish Victor or some other > >knee-jerk critic of the US would spare a few > minutes considering what is currently going on with > >minorities in the socialist meccas of Holland and > >France, not to mention the ghettoes of Britain. > > > > Why is Islam being denigrated here with this > derogatory association of Mecca with socialism and > the ghettos? > Mario replies: > It looks like Santosh is trying to obfuscate the point I was making by a misleading and over-sensitive interpretation of an English "figure of speech" I used, leading to a false allegation that I was denigrating Islam. > Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of colloquial English would know that there was no reference to religion or to Mecca, the center of the Islamic religion, in my post under reference. I did not use the word Mecca - with a capital M. Thus Mecca was not being denigrated as Santosh has falsely claimed. > I was referring to "socialist meccas", which, in English would mean major centers of socialism. > In the meantime, Santosh apparently has nothing to say about the plight of minorities in the socialist meccas of Holland and France, which was what I had referred to in my post.
