colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) (01/06/85)
> In a rather disgusting address presented at the Jewish Theological > Seminary, Desmond Tutu showed himself unfit to have received the Nobel > Peace Prize. Tutu showed immense bigoted bias by ignoring the Arab > Jewish dimension the Middle Eastern question. He was upset that Israel > had to drive out some of the Muslims who fought to prevent the > establishment of the state of Israel. Given the treatment which Muslims > traditionally have given to Jews and other non-Muslims, the Muslims in > Israel received much less than they deserved by Middle Eastern > standards. [fade out] Well, I don't know ANY of the facts. But when A says that somebody has been mistreated, and B says they deserve to be mistreated, I hit the 'n' key on B. It's the business of the clergy to speak out against people's being mistreated - whether they "deserve" it or not. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel
martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo) (01/11/85)
Sicherman is simply bananas. In 1948 the Jewish community of Yahudyah in Libya was attacked by a gang of rampaging Muslims. My mother and my uncle Madmun were there. The Jews had done nothing and the Muslims just attacked. My uncle was killed and my mother gunned down the Arab animal who did it. Is Sicherman telling me that my mother was wrong to give the scum what he deserved? I will admit my grandmother was angry at my mother that the Muslim bastard died too fast. Suppose that Tutu had been expressing sympathy for people who had murdered part of Sicherman's family and who had been degrading humiliating, or persecuting his people for the past millenium. I suspect Sicherman might have been just a little bit peeved. So skip the hypocritical holier-than-thou commentary.