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To: LindyBill who wrote (36444)	8/8/2002 12:38:57 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This is an American Muslim sponsored site for American Muslim teens. They have threads where they chat about how they would enjoy killing Jews, etc Charles Johnson reports that the site noticed the extra traffic and has deleted the nastiest messages. To me, the relevant question when asking if this site is a proper subject for discussion is "whackos or substantial subculture?" Because if it's only a few whackos, you don't want to make too much of it. But if it's really part of a Jihad subculture, then Houston, we have a problem. However, there are some people (present company excepted) who seem to feel that discussing the details of serious bigotry is in itself bigotry. For instance, when Ted Koppel of Nightline discussed the anti-Semitic poster that was put up at SFSU (it showed a dead Palestinian baby and labelled it slaughtered "according to Jewish ritual"), Ted Koppel refused to show the poster on TV because to do so "would have been anti-Semitic". Mark Steyn calls this the "sensitivity coma." I call it robbing yourself of your own discernment and replacing it with a set of taboos.