arig@cvl.UUCP (Ari Gross) (02/01/85)
> > In a reply to the posting of an article containing information about > the orthodox Jews vs the Christian Baptist church in Jerusalem, A.Gross > made the following ordering of religious intolerants > (from least to most) : > > 1 - The ORTHODOX JEWS of Jerusalem > 2 - The ARABS of the Middle-East (They tried to dismantle Israel) > 3 - The IRAN and IRAK (they are killing each other's populations) > 4 - The SYRIAn regime (he destroyed the city of Hamma) > 5 - The Christian Church over the ages (They burned the unfaithful > non-christians) > > He concludes that it's bigotry and prejudice to critisize the Orthodox > jews'intolerance of the baptist church in Jerusalem. > NONSENSE ! > > Were we to apply the same reasoning to the holocausts in the history > of mankind, one could well make an ordering based on the number of > atrocities commited : > > 1 - The NAZIS of Germany in the 1930's > 2 - The North-Vietnamese in Asia (South Vietanam and Combodge) > in the late 1970's and early 1980's. > 3 - The destruction of the MAYAS and INCAS in central/south America > several centuries ago. > etc.. > > ..and conclude that it's bigotry and prejudice to make a big fuss about > nazism and the jews!!! > Well, I do not think that's right!! > One cannot justify bad by comparing it to worse. > That's double standard. > > CHEDLEY C/O ITTVAX!WXLVAX!OLSEN SORRY -- YOU MISSED MY POINT. I was trying to point out precisely that -- Wingate would never have posted an article 'A Note On Intolerance' that described in all its gory detail some of the excesss that go on, in say, the Ayatolla's Iran daily. Why are Orthodox Jews in the State of Israel singled out for 'special treatment'??? > One cannot justify bad by comparing it to worse. > That's double standard. Couldn't have said it better myself. But then again, my whole point was that if YOU are critical of some and not of others (selectively intolerant) that's a double standard. And that's what the diatribe I responded to had tried to do. Ari Gross arig@cvl.arpa