[DEBATE] : Re: DEBATE Digest, Vol 233, Issue 21

[Sean Jacobs]

>

... Not that US (both rightwing and liberal elites) can be very  
skittish about homosexuality themselves.
Sean


> From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages at gmail.com>
> Date: September 27, 2007 5:39:26 PM EDT
> To: Debate <debate at lists.kabissa.org>
> Subject: [DEBATE] : Who Wants "a War of Ideas on Homosexuality in the  
> Muslim World"?
> Reply-To: "debate: SA discussion list " <debate at lists.kabissa.org>
>
>
> <http://montages.blogspot.com/2007/09/who-wants-war-of-ideas-on- 
> homosexuality.html>
> Who Wants "a War of Ideas on Homosexuality in the Muslim World"?
>
> Having seen Columbia University President Lee Bollinger, et al.
> interrogate the President of Iran about homosexuality in Iran, Maureen
> Dowd observes: "Given the repressive and confused stance of some of
> our Middle East allies on women and gays, isn't it insane to get into
> a war of ideas on homosexuality in the Muslim world?" ("'Fruitbat' at
> Bat," New York Times, 26 September 2007). That's an understatement,
> since the most important assets of the empire in the Middle East are
> the Gulf states, but still a good point. Besides, who can believe that
> the empire's media, NGOs, intellectuals, etc. recommending the virtue
> of same-sex love will help make it more popular than it is among
> peoples who resent their countries being subjected to or attacked by
> the empire? The best one can hope for, figuratively speaking, is that
> people will just shoot the messenger without shooting the message.
>
> --
> Yoshie
>
>
>

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Sean Jacobs
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