For a discussion list called "Defending the Truth," I'm reading a lot of false statements and prejudices here.
1. What is "militant Islam"? Has anyone ever bothered to find out what Osama bin Laden's beef with the US is? I mean, other than what Bush has repeatedly spew on the airwaves. Those whom you are labelling "Islamic militants" are a small minority of the nearly one billion muslims in the world. Your understanding of Islam and its practitioners is not based on reality, but on media images, which any thinking person must know are not reflections of reality. You have fallen for the lie that Bush has been telling you since 9/11: anyone against us (meaning the US military-industrial complex) is a terrorist. Again, this "war against terrorism" has nothing to do with terrorism. The government is very good at creating a false enemy through media manipulation and scare tactics. I challenge anyone who honestly care about democracy and reality to read Edward Said's "Orientalism" as a start in your education about how the West has constructed its understanding of the East. You might be shocked to read this, but not all Arabs are the same and not all Muslims are the same. The people in the Middle East are not all camel-riding, turban-wearing suicide bombers who force women to wear veils. The people of the Middle East are more than your own ideas of them. For anyone who chooses to ignore reality and educates himself via TV, I challenge you to read Noam Chomsky's writings on "terrorism", "rogue nations", "regime change", and the methods of historical revision those in power use to control how and what you think. Lonnie Lopez ===== "Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience . . . Therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring" Nuremberg War Crime Tribunal, 1950 IMPEACH BUSH: http://www.votetoimpeach.org/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO================================================== 4 Portals - 2 Wikis - 2 Conferences -- No More BuSHIT! It all starts HERE: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) AND HERE: http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (Featured News) AND HERE: http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (Urgent News) ==============================================================
