Hi Ken,
What you call "rhetoric" from JDN & me is rapidly becoming official US foreign policy.
All Arabic/Islamic peoples living in this country should welcome the forceful positions being taken by the Bush administration, just as much as any US citizen. It's for their protection too. If they have something to hide, however, you may hear them squeeling like stuck pigs. The American people are a tolerant people, a reasonable people, an inclusive people.
In Iran, there are no debates over foreign or domestic policy. Any criticism of the government can lead to immediate imprisonment, as it did last week for a female Iranian filmmaker. Her crime? "seditious content to films that should have glorified the Islamic revolution".
Then there are the British women in Saudi Arabia who were arrested earlier this year, jailed, beaten, and tortured (whip) in prison for not wearing the chador in public. Notice the word "British" there.
Then there were the 50 men (accused homosexuals) arrested in Egypt this past summer under their Koran-influenced laws against male prostitution for the crime of gathering in the same restaurant at the same time. All 50 were put on a show-trial in front of Moslem clerics (NOT secular judges) and their family names + pictures published throughout the middle east.
Then there were the Iranian wives who were murdered by their husbands for wearing makeup in public. The husbands were not charged with a crime.
Then there are the stats showing Islamic women to have the highest incidence of depression and suicide of any grouping of women in the world.
I could go on and on, but you get the idea, right Ken?
This "inflammatory rhetoric" as you call it, is nothing. |
