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IP: Re: Washington's racism and the Islamist trap
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 09:58:52 -0400
From: "Gerry Faulhaber" <gerry-faulhaber () home com> To: <farber () cis upenn edu> I don't get this; the tone of the article is the West is racist re: Muslims when in fact we seem to be bending over backwards to *not* be racist, to publicly and strongly disapprove of racist acts of our citizens, even in our most exigent of times. If racism is hating a group because of what they are rather than what they've done, then racism (and much else) lies in the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks hating Americans, not with the US. Our contempt is for the perpetrators (certainly warranted), not Islam. Our nation has gone very far to make that clear, and I'm proud that it has. Most of the article seems to focus on how educated Muslims with an intimate knowledge of the West still commit fully to terrorism and murder, and that somehow their education justifies what they are doing. Do we forget that Nazi Germany had some of the brightest, most highly educated people in the world, and yet many participated in the barbaric horror of 1933-45? The level of education does not seem to matter; it is the willingness to murder, even dying while murdering. The article completely misses the point. Gerald Faulhaber Business and Public Policy Department Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Philadephia, PA 19104
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