From: "Margaret Trawick" <trawick-AT-clear.net.nz>
Subject: Re: A Call to the Muslims of the World - Endorsed by Richard  Dawkins
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 18:25:47 +1200



> each
> > of us has to deal with
> > our own culture first befor we go trying to fix
> > someone elses.
>
> Does that mean you are against non-Americans on this
> list who criticize the United States? A strange view
> for someone who quotes Che at the end of his
> messages!!
> Or do you think it is OK for foreigners to criticize
> the US but not vice-versa?

"Wolf Factory" - whoever you really are - comments such as the one you made
above are stupid and uncalled for.  There is a big difference between
criticizing somebody else and trying to fix them.  There is, for instance,
and not to put too fine a point on it, a big difference between criticizing
one man and bombing the country in which he resides.  When you engage in
foolish little put-downs, you only annoy others on the list, discredit
yourself, and cast an ugly shadow on whatever intelligent things you may
have said before or may say in future.  I am criticizing you and I am not
trying to fix you.  I am, however, hoping you will either change this one
irritating little habit of your own accord, or else go away.










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