Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/07

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Subject: [OT] Re: [Leica] Library removes murdered Kazemi photos aftercomplaint
From: tim at KairosPhoto.com (Timothy Atherton)
Date: Tue Jun 7 17:05:58 2005

I should add - most of the text was from the CBC report (forgot the quote
marks) only the first two lines were mine

tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+tim=kairosphoto.com@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+tim=kairosphoto.com@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of Tom
> Kumagai
> Sent: June 7, 2005 5:41 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [OT] Re: [Leica] Library removes murdered Kazemi photos
> aftercomplaint
>
>
> Timothy,
>
> It hurts to hear about the sufferings of Palestinians and yet we all
> know that just a handful of people amongh Jewish community would
> probably support this censorship and thus prejudice. I believe that it
> is a racism.
>
> Oscar Barnack and Adolf Hitler are two different individuals, and have
> nothing in common besides their time periods and their being Germans:
> they gave a totally opposite influences to our world. Oscar at least
> made all of us in LUG or any 35mm shooters for that matter - regardless
> of Germans or Jews or Far Easterns  - happy. ;-)
>
> Tom
>
> Re:
>
> > An exhibition of work by slain Canadian photographer Zahra
> Kazemi has been
> >shut down, following complaints it was too sympathetic to the Palestinian
> >uprising.
> >
>
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In reply to: Message from tgif at mbi.nifty.com (Tom Kumagai) ([OT] Re: [Leica] Library removes murdered Kazemi photos after complaint)