File spoon-archives/postanarchism.archive/postanarchism_2004/postanarchism.0402, message 34


From: sss-AT-riseup.net
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:08:09 -0800
Subject: Re: [postanarchism] Katsiaficas: "Coexistence With Islamic      Fundamentalism?"


> i've heard people express similar opinions in argentina when i was
> there
> last month -

stevphen, could you explain more deeply this thing you said? r u talking 
about people who participate in enero autonomo?

Sebastian

Quoting stevphen shukaitis <stevphen-AT-mutualaid.org>:

> there were some unsubstantiated rumors that at anti-war rallies in the
> US
> in the past 2 years people have begun to replace the weathermen chant
> ("ho
> ho ho chi minh, vietnam is gonna winn") with the updated bin laden
> chant
> ("bin bin bin laden, middle east is gonna win")
> 
> i've heard people express similar opinions in argentina when i was
> there
> last month - and a group of teenage palestinian dancers who stayed at
> my
> house briefly last summer said that such was a fairly common opinion
> among
> people at the refugee camp in the gaza strip where they live.
> 
> although, i suspect, for the most part, these are opinions that will be
> not expressed openly the great majority of the time - at least in the
> US.
> 
> solid,
> stevphen
> 
> 
> > First off I found this an excellent article. IT is very intersting.
> >
> >>When the heartland of America was hit on September 11, many
> >> here—including
> > those normally >sympathetic >to the US—secretly celebrated and
> privately
> > expressed satisfaction that a country which has inflicted so
> >>much pain has come to experience that which it has so painlessly
> >> exported.
> > Universally hated and reviled in
> >>the US, Osama Bin Laden is for many Koreans a 21st Century Che
> Guevara,
> >
> > Is this true ?
> >
> >>As long as Bin Laden evades capture and escapes death, he makes the
> >> world’s
> > sole superpower appear
> >>weak.
> > How true. Bin Laden is the mouse that roared. He brought the Beast to
> it's
> > knees ;p
> >
> >> Seoul school children are reported to sing songs praising him, with
> > elementary, middle and high school
> >>students each having made up their own lyrics and melodies.
> > Yo got to be kidding.
> > I could imagine the lyrics going
> > "All hail Bin Laden...
> > He's our man
> > If he can't trash the US
> > Nobody can..."
> > in  Korean.
> >
> 
> 



   

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