In a message dated 8/9/03 7:50:13 AM Central Daylight Time,
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> I find the tone of the message below from Mr Jallow very disturbing.

Ebrima Sall,

This is why I pointed out to Ebou Jallow that his stance is a hypocritical
one. he is enjoying the freedoms that this American society grants him, but
fighting hard to rejoin a regime that stands for anything but freedom of any sort.
He is a walking contradiction any way you look at it.
Jabou

Ebrima Sall wrote:
>
> The worst thing that could ever happen to our country would be for only
> people singing praises to the president being allowed to preach in churches and
> in mosques, or speak on radio and TV, or write in newspapers, or make other
> forms of intervention in the public sphere. In this particular, case, I see
> nothing in the Imam's sermon that warrants threats such as this one in Mr
> Jallow's message:
>
>          "...Jammeh will soon put such characters to check with alacrity".
>
>
> Mosques, churches, and newspapers are all part of civil society, and it is
> quite amazing for someone living in America, seeing how strongly people feel
> about their freedoms, to think that our standards should or could be lower in
> hat regard. The good thing about the 'liberal democracy' that Mr Jallow is
> refering to is that it leaves space for different views to be expressed. What
> makes a public sphere liberal is the fact that it is a sphere in which
> critical public discussion of matters of general interest is institutionally
> guaranteed.
>
>

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