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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (14827)	5/24/2002 3:49:07 AM
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The picture previously inserted in your SI-profile that showed a Palestinian woman abused by Israeli thugs in front of Judeofascist stormtroopers could have been taken in Europe --again, as I said, Israel's merely the eye of the Judeofascist storm looming all over Eurasia.... EU Watchdog Sees Post-Sept 11 Rise in Islamophobia Thu May 23, 9:30 AM ET By Marie-Louise Moller BRUSSELS (Reuters) - People who "look Muslim," especially women in headscarves, have been the main victims of anti-Islamic sentiment in Europe since the September 11 attacks on the United States, a European racism body said Thursday. But in a study entitled "Islamophobia in the EU," it said the attacks on New York and Washington had served mainly to ignite prejudices which had smoldered for years. "September 11 has in some cases merely acted as a detonator of feelings that we have failed to adequately address," Bob Purkiss, chairman of the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC), told a news conference. "If it is right for Europe to give a lead where there is ethnic tension (elsewhere) in the world, then it is imperative that it puts its own house in order if it is to be listened to," he said, presenting the study. [...] story.news.yahoo.com

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (14827)	5/29/2002 5:31:23 AM
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CAIRO INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS STUDIES In Special Consultative Status with UN, ECOSOC ASSIMILATION OR DEPORTATION: ARABS IN EUROPE AND THEIR STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS Dyab Abou Jahjah cihrs.org Excerpt: Europe suffers from selective amnesia, on the one hand it will never forget the Holocaust, never forget even the eleventh of September, but Algeria, Rwanda, Bosnia, Iraq are all too often forgotten. The new Europe is trying, however, to cut a new deal with the world. It is trying to be the enlightened partner of the unique super power. It is always looking for nuances, for that good middle way, and often to the frustration of the American big brother and its loyal lackey in London. Europe is playing an important role in what it calls development cooperation, building partnerships with its southern neighbors that are useful, even though they are far from being a structural solution to any problem. That enlightened Europe that is propagated mainly through the institutions of the European Union is supposed to bring a message of tolerance and broadmindedness to the world and help healing the wounds of conflicts and war. Nevertheless, one might wonder if this new message that Europe wants to bring to the world and the role that Europe wants to claim are not a modern-day version of the infamous "white man's burden" of the past centuries. It is legitimate to pose this question since ethnocentrism still stains policies and minds in the old continent. [snip] ______________________