The sudden concern of the right about Chechnya (notoriously dark ages
in its treatment of its own people andothers--for instance they
take hostages and kidnap and then sell the people as essential slaves
to other like minded groups).  Where oh Atilla-types were you
when the Indonesians were slaughtering 100's of thousands of their own
people.
wcmwq

>
> In a message dated 11/7/99 8:54:18 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> >>What precisely do you mean by the "Western world" and who do you mean by
> >the "Islamic peoples"?
>
> >I assume the Western world include first world nations, like US, Britain,
> >you know, the powerful countries.
>
>     Would the "Western world" include not so powerful countries such as
> Lichtenstein, Canada, Belgium, Norway,  Ireland; or economically powerful
> countries such as Japan or Singapore?  You see the problem?
>
> >Islamic peoples, would be, well, Islamic.
>
>      Should the "Western world" make peace with Islamic Canadians?  How about
> with Germany's sizable population of Turks (mostly Islamic) or are they now a
> part of the "Western world"?  Or does "Islamic peoples" refer to nations
> predominantly Muslim, or to nations ruled by an Islamic Theocracy?  As you
> can see, there is confusion here.
>
> >Isn't it obvious to people here that muslims are the new enemy of the new
> >world order.  During the cold war, it was communists, now it's muslims,
> >specially dark skin muslims.
>
>    Where is the evidence for this "new enemy" status on the part of the
> "powerful countries" of the Western world?   We see a coalition of these
> countries killing Serbs in ostensible defense of Muslim Albanians and then
> turning a blind eye to the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo of all but Albanians.
> After decades of "Western world" support, we see the "Islamic peoples" of
> Indonesia killing predominantly Christian East Timorese.  We see increasing
> support from the "Western world" for the creation of a Palistinian state
> which would be inhabited mostly by followers of Islam.  Other than targeting
> terrorists, many of whom have been Islamic, who are the "Islamic peoples"
> being targeted by the "Western world"?
>
> >This transition is easy for many Americans because their culture is so
> >racist to begin with.
>
>     And this 'transition' would be difficult for racist Korea, or racist
> Japan, or racist Canada, or racist Switzerland, or racist Sudan, etc, etc,
> etc.
> Yours,
> Issodhos
>