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...stress the need to protect all innocent life, and this is our second principle: the sanctity of human life everywhere. Third, members of the Harvard community stand united against racism and are committed to protecting civil liberties in America, especially those of the country’s sizable Muslim, Arab and South Asian communities, who have already suffered atrocious attacks. The fourth point is to seek alternatives to President George W. Bush’s calls for war. We are not advocating for peace blindly. We recognize this is a difficult and delicate time and believe that a just, compassionate...
Incomprehensible, then? Hardly. It is all too easy to comprehend, given minimal knowledge of U.S. involvement in the Arab world over the last 50years. The situation in Israel is only a small, though very visible, part of the story: our support for anti-democratic regimes among moderate Arab states (including Iran, prior to the Islamic revolution) is a largely unmentioned, though equally important part. Our support for bin Laden himself, and the fanatics now ruling Afghanistan, is another. Now dont get me wrong. The responsibility for these acts rests entirely with those who planned and performed them: that people...
...target of hate crimes; and thats what these were; isnt it? I dont much like it, and Ill bet you dont either. But if we dont like it, then maybe we should pause a moment to think about how some of our fellow Americans feel. And I dont mean Arab-Americans and Muslims, though of course they are in great danger, and we must all oppose their persecutionvery loudly. I mean African-Americans and gay men and lesbians and members of way too many other groups, all of whom must wonder, if not daily, then far too frequently, whether they...
...backgrounds who had come to work in those beautiful buildings which represented some abstract future. They have put the entire world on edge. But they may have distanced sympathetic people away from their cause. They may even unwittingly have provided some unexpected justification for the brutal Israeli occupation of Arab lands. That is the law of unpredictable results in history...
...condemned to use mental categories: the concepts Middle East, Fundamentalist, Arab, appear to mean something, when in fact they mean very little. The categories that we commonly use can be quite misleading. We will need history and geography lessons quickly. The category Middle East which has come into common use in the past century includes all kinds of diverse people, Christians as well as Jews and Muslims, Arabic speakers, Turks, Greeks and Armenians, Circassians, Georgians, Kurds and many others besides who may have very different ideas about all these events. And in terms of states, what do Saudi Arabia, Oman...