On 11/14/05, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com>
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> > I was alluding to the Uzbek regime boiling
> > dissidents in oil.
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> Replace "dissidents" with "Hiz-ut-Tahrir members" and
> "oil" with "water." Oil is sexier, but water is
> cheaper!
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> I would love to visit Uzbekistan. I'm going to
> Tatarstan this weekend.
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> Nu, zayats, pogodi!
I dislike the term, "Islamophobia, " (as it it usually deployed by reactionary Islamists and some of their leftist fans like, http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/ http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2005/03/23/islamophobia_watch.php [>..."The blog, which is produced by socialists, handily categorises various 'Islamophobes' with special sections for left, secular and liberal 'Islamophobes'. Featured names include socialist activist Andrew Coates, journalist Nick Cohen, the Workers Communist Party of Iran, gay rights group Outrage, Kenan Malik, journalist Stuart Jeffries and of course Peter Tatchell." M.P. I occasionally kibbitz with Andrew Coates who has contributed to a journal that Yoshie has as well, http://www.whatnextjournal.co.uk/Pages/Latest/Secularism.html , "In Defence of Militant Secularism, " note the refs. to Alain de Benoist ally of Dugin] in the UK SWP who have siddled up to the most noxious bigots, to evade legitimate questioning and struggle against the retrograde aspects of Islam, but, you really fit the bill, with your continual blending of Muslims with Islamist terrorists in Chechnya and elsewhere).
Would you also say the hundreds shot in Andijan in May were as the regime said Islamist terrorists en masse? http://hrw.org/reports/2005/uzbekistan0605/ >..The Aftermath of the May 13 Shootings The Government's Account of the Events
The government has characterized the Andijan events as an attempt by terrorists, motivated by an Islamist agenda and supported by foreigners, to seize power in Andijan.115 It has attributed all deaths to the gunmen and in public has not explicitly acknowledged any casualties inflicted by government forces.
[115] In several public statements President Karimov blamed the violence on Islamic extremist and particularly Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation, see below). In his press conference on May 14 President Karimov said that the unrest was led by "fanatic and extremist groups" who were trying to repeat in Uzbekistan the political upheaval that had taken place in Kyrgyzstan in March. "Their main intention was. . .to set up a branch of Utopian Muslim Caliphate." Regarding the participation of foreigners, the president said that some of the gunmen and their weapons came from abroad. He also said ". . . Without help from outside, without foreign sponsors, they would not be able to commit such a crime. And without the funds they would not have been able to organize their action." See, "Uzbek leader gives news conference on Andijon events - full version", BBC Monitoring Central Asia, May 14, 200
-- Michael Pugliese