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> TODAY'S LETTER: "Indian Immigrant" Comments On "Asian Rioting"
> From: "Indian Immigrant"
> Sam Francis wrote:
> In May, race riots erupted in Oldham and three other northern British cities
> when mainly Asian immigrants attacked white-owned shops and bars, burned
cars
> and beat up cops and civilians alike.
> I think in the interest of accuracy, you should look into who these "Asians"
> are. They are actually Pakistani and Bangladeshi underclass. (If there are
any
> Chinese/Indian/Korean/Japanese rioting, that would be news to me.) It is my
> hypothesis that it is not so much their race as much as the Islamic religion
> which propels them to violence. Look at Palestine, Lebanon, Albania,
> Afghanistan, Chechnia, Pakistan, Kashmir etc., Wherever the unassimilated
> Moslems are in majority or near majority, they start developing friction
with
> the native country people. One can ignore analyzing this phenomenon only at
> the risk of ignoring a major sociological global crisis of today which will
> only grow worse. After all the World Trade Center, Embassy bombings, Khobar
> towers, U.S.S. Cole etc. experience, one would expect you to do better than
> use a broad brush term like "Asian" to describe Islamic violence. It is
about
> as precise as describing Balkan problem or British-Irish! unrest as
"European"
> rioting.
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This is an important comment, and thanks to Bill Douglas for sending it. Let's
resist the impulse to follow suit in calling the September 11, 2001 terrorists
"Arabs" because there are many Arabs who have not succumbed to the
brain-washing of religion.
--J. R.
Useless hypotheses, etc.:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism, GAC, Cyc, Eliza, cryonics, individual
uniqueness, ego, human values
We won't move into a better future until we debunk religiosity, the most
regressive force now operating in society.
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