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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 09:09 PM
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59. And your response is to make glib comments from 5000 miles off
I'd like to see you relocate to bradford in the midlands, or
southall or ealing in london and be so high minded. The telegraph
editors, are as well, hiding away in wealthy communities where the
results of their actions are not felt.

The press is considered, in the UK, to be a genuine mouthpeice of
a segment of people, not a private mouth to spout crap... and the
telegraph has betrayed the interests of its public.

I emigrated away from the United states after major television
stations ran slanderous and liabellous material about my religious
group that permanently destroyed my business reputation and my career
by creating a climate of fear, hatred and paranoia. It broke my
finances, and i could not afford to take legal action to protect my
rights to free religion (and make a living)... so i left the country
because freedom of speech was grossly abused to attack nonchristian
fringe meditation groups.

I've paid dearly for the glib choices of some editors to screw with
my life by printing shit. The telegraph is a crap newsapaper to
chose voluntarily to print inflamatory rhetoric that is not news,
not religous insight, but pure abuse of historical framing to bring
about social unrest so they can carry out their christian-white-mans
britain (ONLY) adgenda. You support them, good for you. It makes
you rather low, in my view, not someone defending anything
noble.

Britain is not america. Free speech has caveats to not create hate
crime, to not be liabellous or inciteful of violence. This poor
choice by the telegraph is the editorial equivalent of arial sharon's
march on the temple mount that brought about the infitada and the
horrible deaths of 1000's of palestineans and israelis. Sure it was
his free right to do that, and he did it to incite and create murder.

The right wing will seek to do such things, and folks like you can
sit about on other continents and be high minded while other people
pay in blood for these bad decisions.

I would issue the telegraph an intense injunction, that they will
lose their license to be a newspaper if they incite violence amongst
the religious communities of britain. This whole tension is brought
about by the bush-alliance and supporting americans (your government)
which many british muslims are totally against. So what is it to be,
? Can we be circumspect in print, to unify rather than create strife?... And can we grow up and see that the british culture is
not america by any means, just because america has licensed the
language.



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