From: "Harald Beyer-Arnesen" <haraldba-AT-online.no>
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: racism
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 00:52:39 +0100



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From: "chris wright" <cwright-AT-21stcentury.net>
To: <aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: 4. mars 2003 17.35
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: racism


> Harald,
>
> Personally, I find this a bit disturbing.  If you had a murderer with a
> Texas accent and you raided all (or even 1/10) of the homes in Texas, you
> would have a riot situation.  It is accepted simply and only because these
> are 'Arabs'/'Muslims'.
>
> And if you are looking for supporters of al-Qaeda, you should go after
> born-again Christians, since Reagan, Bush and co. were the ones who pushed
> through the support and training of these people via the Saudi regime and
> the CIA.  Plus, this overlooks the fact that Bush made the US Seret
Service
> go around the US and pick up and escort every ember of the bin Laden
family
> in the US after 9/11 and get them out of the US.  Now, would you let the
key
> suspect's whole family leave the country without subjecting them to any
> questioning, according to your police procedures?


Chris, that is a wholly moralistic argument. And if you think
what I said was meant as any kind of support of this raids,
you are sorrily mistaken. What I was saying was simply
that if you are first to argue in investigation terms,  it follows
logically that the first you do is to eliminate the non-suspect.
And you quite obviously do not catch any ring leaders
of al-Qaida by arresting Rumsfeld. That is nonsense. Now
I would not doubt a moment that the various investigation
forces, and overeager, ignorant, and often racist and
revengeful police, target many that it makes little or no
sense from an investigation perspective. Good for al-
Qaida, very bad for others.  It is also a pretty stupid -- an
inefficient use of resources -- from the point of view of
the Bush administration. That is if you strart from the point
of departure that they rwant to take as many of them,
and as fast as possible. I believe they are.

<< This is my point, that to accept that the lumping of
Arabs and Muslims together as coherent groups is exactly
part of the process of racialization... >>

Of course it is, and regardless of intention. And who said
anything about accepting.

Harald







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