From: "mona cico" <jubjubi-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: re: Ludicrous assumptions - as usual!
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 12:44:11 -0400


to charles,
you said-

>To Omar Guessous' statement that it is a "rare"
>sentiment that non-Muslims not be allowed in the entire Middle East, I hope
>this is true.  But when I see a tradtition of banning non-believers from
>certain cities evolve into very visible and vocal calls for all 
>non-believers or westerners to leave Saudi Arabia, it does not seem like 
>such a stretch
>to believe there are many in the region who want all non-believers out of 
>the Middle East, or at least want a region which is Judenrein. Right wing 
>militias are present in the US, but have
>no influence on US policy.  The number of people in the militias seems to 
>have dropped off significantly in the last 10 years.


you can compare the ban of "non-believers" to all sorts of elections all 
over the world (to the fact that you have to be a citizen i.e. belong to a 
certain group) why don't you have problems with that?

so, the banning of the sites to non-moslems is aimed to be a defense against 
not really non-believers per se , but rather COLONIALIST POWERS (which can 
be of different religions,etc. let's not forget that throught history Mecca 
and Medina had been a target of attack). That sheltered Saudi Arabia from 
being ever colonised.

Never, ever in this list was this idea discussed (that Saudi Arabia was 
never colonised).

>To Omar Guessous' statement that it is a "rare"
>sentiment that non-Muslims not be allowed in the entire Middle East, I hope
>this is true.

Being a scholar who knows the Middle east and Arabic very well you should 
have an idea about Middle eastern religions and ethnic  groups. if not, take 
a trip to the middle-east.


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