Posted on 12/07/2004 11:55:31 PM PST by kattracks
UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan opened the first U.N. seminar on confronting Islamophobia Tuesday with a plea not to judge Muslims by the acts of extremists who deliberately target and kill civilians.
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"Muslims themselves, especially, should speak out, as so many did following the September 11 attacks on the United States, and show a commitment to isolate those who preach or practice violence, and to make it clear that these are unacceptable distortions of Islam," he said.
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He stressed that Islam "should not be judged by the acts of extremists who deliberately target and kill civilians."
"We should not underestimate the resentment and sense of injustice felt by members of one of the world's great religions, cultures and civilizations," he said.
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Seyyed Hussein Nasr, professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, said Islamophobia was a question not only of fear but also of hatred - often by people who know little about the religion.
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R. Scott Appleby, director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame, said that in the United States and much of Europe, terrorism had created anxiety about the vulnerability of Western societies, drawn unwanted attention to Muslims, and elicited intolerance and hatred among some Americans. This is what terrorists wanted, he said.
In the United States, Appleby said, patriotism should require a willingness to recognize differences and honest self-criticism, not condescension towards people cast as "the other."
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Yet the man is mum on genocides of Christians and Jews around the world. He just loves his Muslims.
I can't tell reality from satire anymore on this site-especially stories pertaining to the UN.
Just saw a slavery nation of Africa is on the UN Commission on human rights.
Islamophobia? WTF!
Fair enough, let's judge Islam by the acts of Muhammad, who deliberately targeted and killed civilians.
Yes! Yesterday!
No, it should be judged by the words and deeds of the vast majority who support the actions of those extremists.
Yes Annan, that is the problem today. Too many people fearing for their lives and not enough sympathy for evil. We need to convince everyone that a Islam is religion of peace, and it is just a coincidence that all those pesky suicide bombers are muslim.
What a pack of garbage.
Islamophobia??? Phobia means fear. I don't fear Islam. I just think it's a death cult.
Every religion has its fanatics.
The difference is that Islam (SUBMISSION) is fanatic at its roots. It is blind subservience to a bloody pagan god who is unknowable and unapproachable except through acts of sodomy, misogyny, slavery and murder.
The only thing we need to understand about them, is that they are evil.
Us humans are a funny lot... we have "irrational phobias" of things like GETTING BLOWN UP!
The good thing about this war on terror (aside from the fact that it is killing America's enemies by the hundreds) is that it brings all these lowlife pieces of $hit (like Coffecup Anus) out in the open.
If this new schtick goes well, Kofi will do a Murdererphobia one, then a Tyrantophobia one....
It's time for Allah to die.
That pic is the best reason I've seen yet for berkas and yasmaks. (Maybe they could get the yasmak just a little tighter!)
"Yet the man is mum on genocides of Christians and Jews around the world. He just loves his Muslims."
He also can't stand the US.
We believe in the Death Penalty. We retaliate against terorism. We oppose the Hague. We want to keep our sovereignty. We dare to back up the UN's idle threats. We exposed the Oil-for-Food program. We even won't give up our guns.
The gap between the US and the UN is huge.
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