The incendiary text was removed from the website of The Guardian after becoming a top-trending link

  • Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Here’s an archived version:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20230920132832/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver

    He raises some fair points about the shitty things the US has done in the Middle East and our continued unwavering support of Israel. But we can’t just Ctrl-Z 80 years of history and ignore that State of Israel now exists and will have to coexist with Palestine. He lost me when he started whining that no one would let him implement Shariah law.

    The rest of it is tired antisemitic conspiracies along with calling on the US to convert to Islam and enshrine Shariah law into the Constitution. Thanks but no thanks: we already have enough religious nutjobs trying to turn the country into a theocracy and we don’t need more.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.works
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      His cognitive dissonance is impressive. He calls for the murdering of American civilians, then a few paragraphs later demands that we convert to his religion since it preaches peace and mercy.

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      1 year ago

      In essence, he declares the US to be an enemy because of their support for Israel.

      That’s why this letter became viral now. That’s why you see people trying to downplay its significance.

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        He also explained why it was ok in his opinion to attack and kill civilians: because the citizens of the US voted for their government and therefore it’s policies… by that standard it would be completely ok if Israel started killing civilians ON PURPOSE because Hamas is Gaza‘s government.

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          Ok?

          by that standard it would be completely ok if Israel started killing ON PURPOSE because Hamas is Gaza‘s government.

          I mean, it’s the same rational any side uses to justify killing civilians. “They’re all the enemy.”

          Hamas did it.

          Israel is doing it.

          The US has done it.

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            Rationalizing collateral damage is not the same as intending to cause mass death without distinction.

            If the US or Israel’s goal was maximizing death, the numbers would be astronomically higher.

            It is false equivalence.

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      Bunch of religious nutjob shit plus his greatest hits. I think it went viral because he described the relationship of the US, Israel and Palestine amidst the nutjob shit.

      But as a wise man once said: you do not, under any circumstances, gotta give it to Al Qaeda

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    What the actual fuck? People can’t possibly think his word is worth anything more than sewage.