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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (133350)8/19/2005 12:01:49 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793903
 
. . . .but whether the criticizer wants to IMPROVE the thing being criticized or wants to DESTROY it.

It's great fun to sit back and make those distinctions. But what bothers folk like Pipes is criticisms of Israel. And what he attacked were those self same criticisms.

Some times, however, criticism goes to the roots of things. It's still speech and still protected speech.

The "radical Islamists" line trotted out when folk don't agree with the criticisms is an exact anologue of McCarthyism.



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (133350)8/19/2005 3:13:23 PM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793903
 
By your logic, if I must accept Senator Biden's criticism of US foreign policy as acceptable (which I do, though I disagree with most of it), then I have no grounds not to accept the criticism of radical Islamists. This is moral cretinism.

What do you mean when you use the term "accept?"

Is it that you read and consider it or is that you accept their right to offer it? Help out a moral cretin here. Ed


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