Well spoken by a man in the Netherlands, translated on the Foreign Affairs thread - the insidious way that the attacks are justified in the name of Palestine:
>> I am of the opinion that some leading Muslims and religious leaders in the Netherlands have inflicted this confusion upon themselves. The disapproving reactions to the attack are to my taste too often paired with a high “on the one hand…on the other hand” relativistic supposition. On the one hand condemning, on the other hand carefully declaring oneself receptive to the causes of action of the perpetrators by relating them to the politics of Israel and the U.S. in the Middle East. Thus could El-Mourmi, just as innumerable other imams in the Netherlands, in his sermon of last week, “on the one hand absolutely condemn the attacks but on the other hand ask the West and America for understanding of the plight of the Palestinians.” Here I quote the Rotterdam Councilman Bourzik who witnessed the sermon. <<
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I don't expect the golf-playing set to be able to think their way out of a paper bag, so if they find themselves unable to think about Afghanistan without being able to understand how it's not the same as Palestine or Iraq or Saudi Arabia, I am not surprised.
I expect better from you.
"It's all about oil" or "bin Laden was financed by the CIA and it's coming back to haunt us" of "it's all about Israel" is drivel.
As a Greek, you know that Macedonia/Kosovo/Serbia and Cyprus and Turkey and Crete and Armenia are not one-dimensional. This is no simpler.
>>For many Dutch, such statements strengthen their growing suspicion with regard to these leading Muslims, who they suspect of double-talk equivocation. Because the murder of thousands of innocent civilians and rescue workers in New York and Washington is a crime against humanity, for which no mitigating circumstance can be justified - not even the suffering elsewhere in the world of the repressed Palestinians, for which the six thousand victims in New York bear no responsibility. I do not wish hereby to deny the suffering of the Palestinians, but if this distinction in official declarations and statements is not introduced then irrevocable further escalations shall follow. How to react if tomorrow a terrorist attack destroys the Holy Places of Islam and in this matter Christians ask Muslims for understanding, pointing to the dead of September 11? Indeed, the call-up that Osama bin Laden launched at Muslims to battle America and to murder her citizens and soldiers, was principally argued legitimate by the presence of American troops on the holy ground of Saudi Arabia. Different than an analysis of origins and causal links, the solemn condemnation of a crime of this dimension must remain a pure process, or the risk that the opposite effect is reached arises.
Remarkable it is also that some among you refuse to admit the hand of Islamic fundamentalists in the attacks, but that you, in total contradiction to this refusal, nevertheless still bring up the Palestinian question in this discussion. << |
