All for one and one for all?I'm a great admirer of Corliss Lamont Corliss Lamont (March 28, 1902–April 26, 1995), was a humanist and Marxist philosopher, and advocate of various left-wing and civil liberties causes. He is the great-uncle of 2006 Democratic Party nominee for the United States Senate from Connecticut, Ned Lamont[1]. and agree with most of what Beth Lamont had to say ("The Fight for the Bill of Rights Lives On" November/December 2006), with one glaring exception: her dismissal of the term "Islamofascist" as the "lumping together of wholly independent groups who happen to share a heritage." When the World Trade Center was attacked a second time in 2001, our president was quick to declare a war on terror This article is about U.S. actions, and those of other states, after September 11, 2001. For other conflicts, see Terrorism. The War on Terror (also known as the War on Terrorism and to begin first bombing Afghanistan and later Iraq. As a logical-minded humanist, I said, wait, you can't fight a war against an idea. Assuming that war won't last forever, with whom do you negotiate a peace? But George W. Bush is right that this is a real war. Perhaps not every believer in Mohammed is out to destroy us, but where were the counter-demonstrators when Muslims around the world were celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center? Where were the outraged Muslims when Theo Van Gogh Theo (or Theodore or Theodorus) van Gogh may refer to:
tr.v. op·pressed, op·press·ing, op·press·es 1. To keep down by severe and unjust use of force or authority: a people who were oppressed by tyranny. 2. Muslim women? Where were the outraged Muslims when the Muslim clergy issued a death threat against Salman Rushdie Noun 1. Salman Rushdie - British writer of novels who was born in India; one of his novels is regarded as blasphemous by Muslims and a fatwa was issued condemning him to death (born in 1947) Ahmed Salman Rushdie, Rushdie for writing a book questioning certain tenets of their religion? As bad as our Christian Right The term "Christian Right" is used by scholars and journalists, to refer to a spectrum of right-wing Christian political and social movements and organizations characterized by their strong support of conservative social and political values. has become in this nation, nobody in authority has yet to declare Sam Harris a dead man for daring to criticize that religion. Bush has taken a step toward reality by stating that we are at war with "Islamofascists." Laverne Rison Albuquerque, NM |
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