In a message dated 8/9/03 7:50:13 AM Central Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > 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. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~