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To: lorne who wrote (18775)	1/4/2003 11:02:24 AM
From: hdl	Respond to of 23908

i remember an incident in which a kid in about 8th grade around 1958 suggested a betting pool on when the Pope, who was ill, would die. a couple of other kids beat him up. he didn't get much sympathy. but, tallahassee paper should at the least at same time have expressed outrage at islam's lack of tolerance, diversity and inclusiveness. actions and statements of muslims are much worse than what chastised reporter said. for balance this should have been stated. Miller said those views "absolutely do not represent the views and sensitivities of this newspaper. Worse, they run counter to many of the values we hold dearest, among them tolerance, diversity and inclusiveness." u s , media make more of accurate statements of falwell, graham, robertson- than outrageous statements of muslim leaders and intentional killing of innocents by muslims. y was reporter treated worse than leroi jones, jesse jackson, maxine walters? y do blacks not chastise them; y do they acquit oj? how do they get away with it with impunity?

To: lorne who wrote (18775)	1/4/2003 11:35:34 AM
From: hdl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Egypt's Response to Accusations of Arab Media Antisemitism In a Series of Articles Published in Al-Ahram, Mubarak's Political Advisor Refutes Antisemitic Myths, Blames Antisemitism on Europe, Explains that Zionism is the Root of the Arab-Jewish Conflict, and Offers Arabs and Israel Ways to Improve Their Relationship Recently, Arab countries have been forced to address Western accusations that the Arab media provides a platform for antisemitism. Most Arab leaders and intellectuals have responded with complete dismissal of these accusations, claiming that they are merely an attempt by the 'Zionist lobby' in the U.S. and Jewish organizations in Europe to silence legitimate criticism of Israel and Zionism. This view was voiced by Ibrahim Nafi', editor of the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram, who in mid-2002 was subpoenaed for a criminal investigation in France on charges of antisemitism after he published an article about a blood libel in his paper. (1) Nafi' stated, "Although the article belongs in the category of criticism of Israeli government policy towards the Palestinian people, the Jewish French Association [sic] petitioned the courts in France against Al-Ahram, claiming that the article belongs in the category of 'antisemitic actions...' This is no more than a kind of intellectua! l terrorism, and an attempt to restrict the freedom of the Egyptian and Arab press." Nafi also mobilized the intellectual and government elite in Egypt and across the Arab world in support of his positions. A less frequent response to these accusations has been an attempt to inform the Arab public that the antisemitic myths and canards published in the Arab media are false. Only a few intellectuals, mostly liberal ones, have adopted this approach, both in the Arab world and outside it. Following harsh criticism from the American administration and Congress and in the American press on the airing in Egypt and other Arab countries of the antisemitic Egyptian television series "Horseman Without a Horse" - criticism to which Egyptian President Mubarak himself found it necessary to respond - more voices rejecting antisemitism began to be heard. The most prominent of these is Mubarak's political advisor Osama Al-Baz. In the most comprehensive reaction to date, in three articles published in Al-Ahram, (2) Al-Baz analyzes the expansion of the phenomenon of antisemitism, states that Europe was responsible for its development, and claims that it is actually foreign to the Arab world and to Islam. He goes on to refute some of the most common antisemitic myths, such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the blood libel. He dismisses some common Arab claims about antisemitism, explaining to his readers who might share the widespread view that Arabs cannot possibly be antisemitic because they themselves are Semites that the term "antisemitism" refers to Jews alone. He calls on Arabs to recognize the Holocaust and revile Nazism, and warns against seeing Jews as a single homogenous group - which, he says, gives rise to racist and hostile attitudes towards them. Al-Baz then casts responsibility for the Arab-Jewish conflict - and by implication, for Arab hostilities against Jews - on Zionism. F! inally, he offers some recommendations to both Arabs and Jews for improving relations between them. Al-Baz's articles were published in English by Al-Ahram Weekly Online, and also issued by the Egyptian Embassy in Washington, D.C. To read the articles, visit www.memri.org/release