...and concludes that it
is a
war about Islam, but specifically as he puts it a war against 'Islamists.' Samuel Huntington gets at least partially trashed along the way. Thoughts?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
"But I wanted then to ask a question which is no less important now:
suppose we say that the ills of our societies are not primarily
America's fault - that we are to blame for our own failings? How
would we understand them then? Might we not, by accepting our own
responsibility for our problems, begin to learn to solve them for
ourselves?"
Oh, did you want to ask that question, Salman? How nicely you posed
it.
Problem is the problems are caused by the imperial-capitalists. So
the solution, the solution you prescribe, Salman, is folly.
Let me ask you a question, Salman:
Suppose we all just admit that the pigs were already planning to feed
at the trough... already planning to make war on Afghanistan? Already
determined to go over there and take, and shape and control...
Suppose we came right out and admitted that, Salman, and the we
said ... "YEAH, BUT"...
Would that make us "absurd"? "Self-exculpatory"?
Would we rest assured that this tact would have "widespread appeal".
YEAH, BUT...
― Ergo, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Propaganda conspiracy theory - somebody 'kindly suggested' Rushdie
about the huge debt he piled up with public money for security, and
reminded him of his current low popularity standing. Or maybe he felt
the debt himself?
FWIW I want to position myself as far away
as it's possible to be from Ergo's post. Thanx.
― dave q, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
five years pass...
You mean Lord Ahmed? Yeah, the man's an utter tool.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)
yeah it was he. classic blame-the-victim, pro-censorship bullshit.
― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)
However, Mr. Rushdie is not even close to being a popular writer and knowing his status in the Muslim world, awards like this definitely increases the gap between the West and the Islamic world.
Oh, boo hoo, cry babies
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)