[lbo-talk] Orientalists and Islamists

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat May 22 12:25:43 PDT 2004


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>Anyhow, you find it objectionable when Mahathir bin Mohamad twists
>the fact that some ruling-class individuals -- including a few who
>are wealthy enough to make a difference in the currency market --
>are Jewish to spread paranoid propaganda about the Jewish power bent
>on world domination. You rightly call such propaganda anti-Semitic.
>You don't seem to be able to see -- let alone remove -- the beam in
>your own eye when it comes to your ideas about Arabs and Muslims.

The Israeli state oppresses Palestinians; that doesn't mean that all Jews, or THe Jews, are responsible for that brutality. Many Arab and Islamic societies oppress women (as do religious subcultures like fundamentalist Christianity and orthodox Judaism); that doesn't mean that The Arabs and a nonexistent Islamic Totality are corporately responsible.

Doug



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