On Apr 24, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Today is a good day to remember that secular nationalism is worse for
> minorities than Islam:
>
> <http://herodote.net/dossiers/evenement.php5?jour=19150424>
> 24 avril 1915
> Le génocide arménien
>
> Le samedi 24 avril 1915, à Istamboul, capitale de l'empire ottoman,
> 600 notables arméniens sont assassinés sur ordre du gouvernement.
> C'est le début d'un génocide (*), le premier du XXe siècle. Il va
> faire environ 1,2 million de victimes dans la population arménienne de
> l'empire turc.
I'm so glad you presented that little item in the original French; its loveliness is as untranslatable as a Valery poem!
Your introductory comment is pretty nonsensical. Islam is a religion, and can be good, bad, or neither. One can make a long list of things that are "worse than Islam" - e.g., Naziism, phosgene, brain tumors, English food. Islamism, and Islamic theocracy, is another ball of wax entirely. Your Islamist pals in Tehran have persecuted, often viciously, a host of religious and national minotiries in Iran - among them fellow Moslems who made the mistake of adhering to the Sunni rather than the Shia brand.
Doug