Sun. Aug 04, 2002
Illogic in the News
Illogic in the News – (via Charles Johnson) The Arab News, that is, courtesy of an article by ”Dr. E.A. Richards”: "As to the 5 American students that died, why weren’t they studying in the United States, at Yale, or Vassar, instead of being in a foreign country in which a genocidal war against Palestine was going on? If those students were, like many other such ’American’ students that go to work, study, live, or join the Israeli army, then they must have known they would be in jeopardy. Those students were in Israeli because their allegiance was to Israel, rather than to the United States, and this allegiance had consequences that should have been foreseen by them or their parents."
OK. Let’s put that logic to the mirror test. By that logic, the thousands of Arabs and Muslims studying in American universities in the United States must be showing their allegiance to America over their home country. Why aren’t they studying in Saudi Arabia, or Pakistan, or Syria? Instead, they come to America, where they know we are fighting a war on terrorism. They have to know they will be in jeopardy, and that their allegiance to America would have consequences that should have been foreseen by them or their parents.
Can America act against Arabs based on that logic, ”Doctor”? Would we be condemned if we did?
Published 10:00PM, Sun, Aug 04 2002
Category: Middle East
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Thank you for completely side stepping my closing questions, Doctor. I still would like to know how it would play in the Arab News if the US applied the mirror test with such beliefs those you expressed in that article, or even with Saudi government policies. How would Saudi's react if we used a mirror version of their own visa policies when they complain about ours? Or how would it play in the Arab News if, for the holiest of days in our country, we instituted policies demanding certain behavior from non-Christians on Christmas day, the violation of which by the simplest of human acts could result in losing their job, or deportation? In 1990, with Iraq's Republican Guard on their border, how would Saudi's have reacted if the US said it would not support war against Saddam, or allow its military forces "to be used for an attack on Iraq even if the United Nations authorizes military action"?
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Say what you will, but if those poor girls killed in the bomb blast had stayed in the US, they would still be alive. We grieve for them and their families, just as we do for Palestinians dying.