<br>So Yoshie you deny that men in Iran have been executed for homosexuality?<br><br>Do you want pictures?<br><br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Yoshie Furuhashi</b>
<<a href="mailto:critical.montages@gmail.com">critical.montages@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 11/29/06, Angelus Novus <<a href="mailto:fuerdenkommunismus@yahoo.com">fuerdenkommunismus@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> --- Yoshie wrote:<br>><br>> > Isn't that because of your profound Islamophobia,
<br>> > common among leftists in the West?<br>><br>> Please define Islamophobia.<br><br>Application of a double standard when it comes to Islam and Muslims,<br>for starters. For instance, some of the domestic policies of the
<br>Iranian government -- e.g., regarding AIDS, contraceptive use, etc. --<br>have won praise from international observers and are actually the sort<br>for which Doug would have a kind word or two if they were put into<br>
practice by a secular government, a government led by Marxists and<br>Catholic liberation theologians, and so on in the developing world,<br>but he "could never find any kind words to utter about the [Iranian]<br>regime's domestic policies, which are profoundly reactionary and
<br>pretty much the absolute inversion of my utopia." He also loses his<br>skepticism when it comes to unsubstantiated allegations against the<br>Iranian government, such as that Iran is executing gay men for<br>homosexual identity or homosexual sex, skepticism that he is perfectly
<br>capable of exercising when it comes to other subjects. In short,<br>Islam makes a difference in his judgment.<br><br>Islamophobia is compounded by Doug's acceptance of the empire relative<br>to the Islamic republic. He's softer on the US government than the
<br>Iranian government, though the former is responsible for far more<br>death, poverty, and so on in the world than the latter.<br><br>On 11/29/06, Doug Henwood <<a href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">dhenwood@panix.com</a>
> wrote:<br>><br>> On Nov 29, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:<br>><br>> > Isn't that because of your profound Islamophobia, common among<br>> > leftists in the West?<br>><br>> By the way, this further convinces me that you've begun to embarrass
<br>> yourself, having painted yourself into a corner with your<br>> preposterous defenses of the Iranian regime, but since you're too<br>> arrogant ever to admit you're wrong<br><br>Isn't it the height of arrogance for you to assume that, just because
<br>you think I'm wrong, I must believe that I am?<br>--<br>Yoshie<br><<a href="http://montages.blogspot.com/">http://montages.blogspot.com/</a>><br><<a href="http://mrzine.org">http://mrzine.org</a>><br><<a href="http://monthlyreview.org/">
http://monthlyreview.org/</a>><br>___________________________________<br><a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a><br></blockquote></div><br>