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=> Maggie Writes...

Maggie Writes...

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Saturday, April 7 2007, 16:42:17 (CEST) from 189.156.7.192 - dsl-189-156-7-192.prod-infinitum.com.mx Mexico - Windows XP - Mozilla Website: Website title:

...I have to come out and say it...I think Maggie lifted her article, the meat of it, from someone else. It is cleaner and better written than anything she has ever posted and is just way too "smart" to have come from her own fat head. This is in the trend of nationalists and religionists who feel their work is so important it justifies cutting corners and even lifting and definitely lying....there÷s no good reason why Maggie should try to present this as her own thought and writing...not if the point is simply to educate...as she claims she is doing...but, in the footsteps of Dadeeshoo, the point seems to be more to impress the readers and bingo fans. Be that as it may...I find it curious that so much is being expected and asked of the Kurds..or anyone else, when the Americans, among whom Maggie and Dadeeshoo must now count themselves, are guilty of the most barbaric and racist behavior anywhere one earth. The Kurds have been at war now against Turks, Persians and Iraqis as well as Russians for well over 200 years...they have hardly ever had a moments peace in that time, plus which they have been betrayed by the Americans and set up for slaughter by the Iraqis and Turks as well as Persians...so let÷s give them a break...kay. Why all these high falutin words and scolding....where do we...where does Maggie, come off telling the Kurds what they MUST do when she can÷t get Bush to do anything she wants....it÷s not like the Kurds came out of the European, Christian, marvellous background of peace, democracy, liberty and freedom and justice for all...what÷s with insisiting Muslim women must be equal and free when American women still don÷t get equal pay for equal work and the Equal Rights Amendment, after thirty years, is still rejected by this country...while we weep over the condition of women in counties who just barely escaped Ottoman rule... And in this quote Maggie let÷s it all hang out...."The linguistic form a child uses is intimately connected with loved one’s community, and personal identity. To suggest that one cannot use their language at their own place of business, or in school, is ignorant and oppressive, as it implies there is something wrong with that language and the people who speak it. This implication fits the perfect definition of Racism and Discrimination, which is what the Assyrians of northern Iraq are currently experiencing at the hands of the Kurds!" ...does she not know that the state she lives in, democractic and modern California, passed a law some years back making it a crime to speak anything but English in the workplace...and declared English to be the official language of the state....what the Kurds and Iraqis are faced and were faced with, as well as the Turks, is the contradcition of guaranteeing special rights to religious and linguistic and ANY minorities in an age which also demands national rights and no discrimination...if you÷re going to live IN Kurdistan or in Iraq or in America then, by god and the law, you must agree to learn and use the language of the DOMINANT MAJORITY. Bush demands it...why can÷t Talabani and Barzani..it÷s the same dilemna as always; the nation needs to see itself as one...as the western nations do, in order to defend itself and prosper...it may be a crude and heavy handed way to do it, but it must be done if a nation is going to be a nation...the millet system could only flourish under Islam because Sharia law, the law of the land, was meant only for Muslims...which is the way the Christians preferred it anyway...so that an equal freedom and right to be ruled by their own religious political leaders was extended to the Christian and Jewish and Yezidi minorities...those days are long gone, brought to an end by the West the eastern Christians were begging to save them...well, they did...they saved them and made the millet system an anachronism...the modern nation state, which the Nestorians will never get, demands conformity and suspects diferences...it wants to moosh the mass of people into one nationality..one consciousness, which means one language...ask Bush...and if it÷s good enough for the state Maggie lives in then it is good enough for the newly emerging Kurdistan... People who live in California shouldn÷t throw glass stones. --------------------- - BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

The full topic: Maggie Writes... pancho - Saturday, April 7 2007, 16:42:17 (CEST) Re: Maggie Writes... JUMBLAT - 04/07 16:59 Re: Maggie Writes... pancho - 04/08 01:21 and another thing... pancho - 04/08 01:45 Re: and another thing... Jamblat - 04/08 03:28

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