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On 11/29/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/29/06, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > --- Yoshie wrote:
> >
> > > Isn't that because of your profound Islamophobia,
> > > common among leftists in the West?
> >
> > Please define Islamophobia.
>
> Application of a double standard when it comes to Islam and Muslims,
> for starters. For instance, some of the domestic policies of the
> Iranian government -- e.g., regarding AIDS, contraceptive use, etc. --
> have won praise from international observers and are actually the sort
> for which Doug would have a kind word or two if they were put into
> practice by a secular government, a government led by Marxists and
> Catholic liberation theologians, and so on in the developing world,
> but he "could never find any kind words to utter about the [Iranian]
> regime's domestic policies, which are profoundly reactionary and
> pretty much the absolute inversion of my utopia." He also loses his
> skepticism when it comes to unsubstantiated allegations against the
> Iranian government, such as that Iran is executing gay men for
> homosexual identity or homosexual sex, skepticism that he is perfectly
> capable of exercising when it comes to other subjects. In short,
> Islam makes a difference in his judgment.
>
> Islamophobia is compounded by Doug's acceptance of the empire relative
> to the Islamic republic. He's softer on the US government than the
> Iranian government, though the former is responsible for far more
> death, poverty, and so on in the world than the latter.
>
> On 11/29/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 29, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> > > Isn't that because of your profound Islamophobia, common among
> > > leftists in the West?
> >
> > By the way, this further convinces me that you've begun to embarrass
> > yourself, having painted yourself into a corner with your
> > preposterous defenses of the Iranian regime, but since you're too
> > arrogant ever to admit you're wrong
>
> Isn't it the height of arrogance for you to assume that, just because
> you think I'm wrong, I must believe that I am?
> --
> Yoshie
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