From: Kharin (kharin@kharin.com)
Date: Tue Oct 28 2003 - 16:14:07 MST
"I'm not sure that the link you kindly provided does very much to support your contention that he is a particularly unstable and dictatorial
personality."
The general assumption is that Ibrahim's trial was arranged in order to remove a political rival. This link may be more informative:
http://web.amnesty.org/library/print/ENGASA280281998
"It seems to me that he is referring pretty specifically to the Palestinian question and as all Virians know full well, this is a very vexed question. But to me it is very significant that he seems to specifically condemn suicide bombings and other terrorist actions. Quite possibly I am being obtuse but the speech seems to me to be relatively moderate."
I think I have two concerns over the speech. Firstly, the acceptance of what appears to be the ideas promulgated by the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which was also Hitler's view. I do not understand such views to have a factual basis in either political or economic terms. Secondly, the references to counter attacking, buying weapons, building up strength in armed might, defending the Islamic nation do not strike me as especially reassuring; and they do not strike me as specifically referring to Israel since many of them explicitly refer to jews in other states (I would judge that those comments would probably be prosecutable as amounting to incitement to racial hatred in many European countries). For example:
" The enemy will probably welcome these proposals and we will conclude that the promoters are working for the enemy. But think. We are up against a people who think. They survived 2000 years of pogroms not by hitting back, but by thinking. They invented and successfully promoted Socialism, Communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so they may enjoy equal rights with others. With these they have now gained control of the most powerful countries and they, this tiny community, have become a world power. We cannot fight them through brawn alone. We must use our brains also. "
Then compare:
" You are being enslaved by those who have the most money, the most influential ones, and those who have the strongest news media, particularly the Jews, who are dragging you behind them under the trick of democracy in order to support the Israelis and their schemes and hostility to our religion and at the expense of our blood and land, as well as at the expense of your blood and economy. "
Author: Osama Bin Laden http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3204230.stm
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