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Ous,
Thanks for your input. It seems you are not letting your religious veil blur your vision. We must call a spade by its proper name. Arab racicism is rampant throughout North Africa and the Middle East too. You cannot cure a disease by attacking one antibody. You go for the virus but first you must identify it.
Regards,
Kabir.
"Ousman Ceesay" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In a message dated 11/1/00 5:59:19 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> > What you should be
> > attacking is Arab racism for that would not be gone even if Ghaddafi were
> > gone tomorrow.
>
> Kabir,
> This is exactly the problem. Arab distrust and disgust towards black
> people is prevalent even in the united states. Michigan has the largest
> concentration of Arabs in the united states, with most of them working
> in family owned party stores. The clientele is mostly inner city blacks
> but yet still they treat them like dirt. The situation sometimes gets
> fatal as was the case in 1999 when two Arab gas station attendants
> lynched a black man in the city of Detroit. If they can treat blacks like
> that in the united states I will be damn if they won't do worse in their
> own back yard.
>
> People may try to scapegoat ghadaffi for the atrocities committed by his
> country men, but the truth of the matter is you can't blame one man for
> the brutality of his race against another. Arab sense of superiority over
> blacks has been going on since the trans-sahara slave raids. In the name of
> Islam they wage war on our people, enslaved them and still think of us worse
> than animals.
>
> Can any one on this list tell me the name of Bilal's wife? Was this black
> Ethiopian ever allow to marry an Arab woman even though his services to
> the growth and sustainability of Islam is exemplary? If the answer to these
> questions is NO then I won't hesitate to call in to question the credibility
> of
> the people he [bilal] was dealing with.
>
> As long as we let our religious affiliation over come our judgement,we will
> continue to put the blame of blatant Arab racism on one man [ghadaffi] and
> history
> will bear testament that we acted cowardly.
>
>
> >
> >
>
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