IP: Re: Washington's racism and the Islamist trap

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 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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