Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id HAA19242 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:14:47 +0100 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:09:13 +1000 Subject: Re: Bush's War on Terrorism Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: John Wilkins <wilkins@wehi.edu.au> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F64sGKO6LDhBgY0000895c@hotmail.com> Message-Id: <A3CB41BD-51C9-11D6-A4B9-003065B4D1F0@wehi.edu.au> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 02:34 PM, Grant Callaghan wrote:
.....
> Malaysia is in the midst of an attempt by the muslim clergy to take over
> the government and they harbor a large number of al qaeda who recently
> fought bravely in Afghanistan. Singapore seceded from Malaysia because
> of the anti-Chinese sentiment of the Malaysians.
Oh Malaysia is an apartheid society alright, but that is not what is at
issue here. As a democratic country (moreso than many countries at any
rate) they are ruled by rule of law. The government of Mahatir Mohammed is
not in favour of harbouring al-Quaeda or any terrorists, and at the recent
Islamic summit, he tried to get a resolution adopted decrying terrorism
and condemning those who take part in it. As much as an Australian is
honour-bound to dislike Mahatir, it is unfair to lump him in with the
Taliban or Saudis just because he shares a religion with them.
And there are a number of American Christian clergy who work towards a
theocratic state ; not to mention the occasional nutcase in Australia,
Canada, the UK and Europe...
>
> Brunei, on the other hand, I haven't heard much about. Maybe they are
> peaceful and content with their government. That's a very small portion
> of the muslim population, though.
>
> Grant
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
>
>
> ===============================================================
> 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
>
>
-- John S Wilkins Head, Communication Services The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Parkville, Victoria, Australia=============================================================== 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 : Wed Apr 17 2002 - 07:25:58 BST