>Anyway, maybe Yoshie and Todd need to get out and talk to more >Americans.
>Fox News and the Weekly Standard aren't the dominant >strain of America.
I would talk to Americans more, but you people can't seem to figure out where the Hell Canada is:
http://www.mentalstirrings.com/articles/canadian.htm
http://home.attbi.com/~wwwstephen/americans/
http://www.tvguidelive.com/netcetera/rick-mercer.html
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So, what happened immediately after the WTC fell and word got round some fundies from the ME did it? The authorities were damn quick to condemn any sort of "private revenge" against Muslims. And why would Bush and/or his handlers put him at a mosque to show Muslims weren't the enemy? To forestall random acts of revenge on "inopportune targets", as well as boost ratings by getting all understanding and fuzzy.
They knew the chances of lynchings were pretty high right after 9-11.
>People will argue that the toppling of the Taliban was revenge. I'd >argue
>it was to prevent future 911s and has worked thus far.
What, it can't be both, with an "object lesson" tossed in to boot?
On to Yoshie . . . .
She posted:
>Surely an author is free to change characters' symbolic significances
>(among other things) when he parodies another's work.
Of course, but you can change it so much that you lose the "bang". I think that's what happened here.
>>How much of the growth of Islamism is also rooted in
>>not-necessarily-pro-American secularism and capitalism?
>For that, you might look at the roots of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
>The prison memoir of Zaynab al-Ghazali -- the founder of the Muslim Women's
>Association who was imprisoned from 1965 to 1971 under Nasser for charges
>of collaboration with the Muslim Brotherhood -- may be an interesting read
>in this context.
Oy! Another book! I'll add it to the pile.
Todd
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