Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id GAA08013 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:52:36 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: cheetah.nor.com.au: Host 227.digital.ppp.telstra.dataheart.net [202.147.129.227] claimed to be green-machine Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20020228103253.006f7578@pophost.nor.com.au> X-Sender: jeremyb@pophost.nor.com.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:32:53 +1100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk From: Jeremy Bradley <jeremyb@nor.com.au> Subject: Re: Why memeoids? In-Reply-To: <00b901c1b221$0ab3b960$daa0eb3e@default> References: <F170ZuNY1SWoBDyseVw0000caec@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
At 11:50 AM 10/02/02 +0100, you wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Scott Chase <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
>
They would probably dislike us less if we were a theocracy (ie-
>> >>people of the book...the law stemming from that book) and an Islamic
>> >>theocracy at that. Rabid anti-Semitism might get us more brownie points.
>> >>
Hi All
In browsing the back E-mails I came across this nasty little meme. It is
the contagious idea that only Jews are Semites, (I have had the
'anti-Semitic' tag thrown at me by all kinds of fundies for supporting the
rights of Palestinians to be unmolested in their own lands).
The word 'Semite' refers to all those races derived from Shem, (I quote The
Oxford) "including Hebrews…Arabs & Assyrians." So unless we support the
idea that present day Middle Eastern Moslems are all somehow survivors of
the post-Exodus genocide of Canaanites, they are mostly Semites. This does
not include those Moslems to the east of Iran as they were probably not
even related (mythically or not) to Noah who was the father Shem and
grandfather of Canaan.
See Genesis 9 18-27 for the genesis of the problem and then the rest of the
'Old Testament' for the history of the Levantine problem.
Yours
Jeremy
===============================This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Feb 28 2002 - 07:12:54 GMT