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To: hdl who wrote (11579)	2/16/2002 12:05:27 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

Ah, I thought, that what you were saying that the Press Coverage of Communist Atrocities (against its own citizens) is equal to Press Coverage of Muslim Atrocities....

To: hdl who wrote (11579)	2/16/2002 12:12:56 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

This last point is really the key critical contribution of the book. It rests on the fundamental distinction between individual rights and state power. Whereas in Western democracies individuals are, in varying ways, protected from state absolutism, Mayer sees political orderings in the contemporary as well as traditional Arab world, whether Islamic or simply dictatorships, as entities against which individual persons have no real rights, although some citizens mainly free adult males may enjoy certain privileges. Closely related to the pre-eminence of state power is a long-standing distrust of human reason in defining and adjudicating human rights and duties and a strong preference for guidance based on scripture and juristic precedent and consensus. isim.nl