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Subject: [Leica] Southern Decadence, in B&W
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (slobodan dimitrov)
Date: Wed Sep 5 23:21:23 2007
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Bump, bump, bump...!

s.d.


On Sep 5, 2007, at 9:48 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

> The most dangerous intolerance is not Islamist, it is the political  
> left -
> Mao, Stalin & co killed huge swathes of their population, mostly  
> under the
> eyes of an inert and compliant world. I still see intolerance to an  
> extreme
> degree in the communists here in India. Terrorism of the present  
> variety can
> only be done away with education, and job creation, which is  
> notably absent
> in the Islamic world. Do a couple of random murders and half a  
> dozen people
> put under police protection, make such a difference to your daily  
> lives? You
> must be going soft. There are nutcases in all countries, but they  
> are not
> the norm.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
>
> On 9/6/07, Nathan Wajsman <nathan@nathanfoto.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, but I disagree. I know it is politically correct to say these
>> days that all fanatics are equally bad, but from a practical  
>> standpoint
>> this is simply not the case. I cannot recall any terrorist incidents
>> perpetrated by, say, fanatical Mormons or the Hassidim. While  
>> fanatical
>> Baptists in the US have committed a few crimes such as shooting of an
>> abortion doctor, these are isolated incidents. We should call a  
>> spade a
>> spade. Within the past week terrorist plots have been uncovered in
>> Denmark and Germany. Earlier this year, there were car bombs in  
>> the UK;
>> then we have July 7th 2005 in London,  March 11th 2004 in Madrid,
>> September 11th 2001 in New York and Washington...the list goes on.  
>> Here
>> in the Netherlands, religion may be freely criticized, but pick the
>> religion you criticize carefully...a film director was murdered on  
>> the
>> street in Amsterdam in 2005 for making a film criticizing Islam's
>> treatment of women; an ex-Muslim politician of Somali origin,  
>> Hirsi Ali,
>> was effectively hounded out of the country (she is in the US now) in
>> 2006; and an anti-immigrant politician, Geert Wilders, is currently
>> living under police protection for expressing anti-Koran views.
>>
>> So no, while on an intellectual level all fanatics may be equally
>> idiotic, on a practical level there IS a difference between them, a
>> difference quite significant to our daily lives here in the  
>> liberal West.
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>> Ric Carter wrote:
>>> I fear you are right, Jay
>>>
>>> ric
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 4, 2007, at 9:44 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>>>
>>>> The real clash of
>>>> civilisations is between the believers and the rest - the actual
>>>> religion is
>>>> immaterial.....
>>>
>>>
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>> Nathan Wajsman
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