Re: Current Issues in Religious Tolerance

Robert Arvay wrote:

> Greetings;
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hammond) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Arvay) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
> > > Paul, your comments are insensitive and culturally biased against the
> > > Coptics who fled persecution.
> >
> > Put your own house in order.
> >
> > How have I said anything "culturally insensitive" Mr "Arabs
> > are not really human like us"??
>
> (snip)
> As to your unfounded ad hominem attack, I have not only never said
> anything even remotely like what you accuse me of, I have consistently
> sympathized with the Arabs, and with ALL oppressed people.

"I have been trying to gain an insight into the Arab Islamic mindset,
to better understand the intransigent hatred and fanaticism besetting
the Middle East."
- Robert Arvay, 8 August 2002

In the message I drew the quotation from, you were quoting this bit of bigotry and 
presenting it as a 'fact':

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"During the Cold War ....the subjects of the Soviet empire ....were
pretty much like us - folks who wanted life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness.

But this is not true of the Middle East."
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Robert, perhaps you don't intend it, but you do seem very much the hateful 
anti-Semitic bigot when you post here
about the middle-East.  Reading you, and your paste-ins from JWR, I'd think there is a 
pipeline of hatred and bigotry
running from here to there.  Your attempt to paint Mrs. Arafat, a mother with 
children, as an apostate from Islam,
struck me as particularly hateful.

- Pat
kohli at ameritel.net