[Reader-list] RE: Fw: THE BURDEN OF SANITY

[Wallace, Paul]

Excellent points.  I'm very familiar with the many incidents of bigotry as
reported in our media against Muslims as well as against other identities
that are considered to be Muslim.  On the other hand, I also have been very
active with the media in the state of Missouri averaging about five
interviews and/or live presentations a day since I teach terrorism.  I do
hear outrageous statements, but without exception the talk show host or
whoever is responsible hasn't hesitated to put the person down for unfairly
stereotyping.  The language is basic: e.g. "a few bad apples down't spoil a
barrell" or "you're playing into the terrorist's hands."  My major concern
is about the actions of our government and its allies in regard to military
actions.  The situation can become much worse.


 Prof. Paul Wallace
 Dept. of Political Science
 University of Missouri
 Columbia, Missouri 65211-6030
 573/882-2820  fax: 573/884-5131
 e-mail: WallaceP at missouri.edu


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> From: 	Jerry Barrier
> Sent: 	Thursday, September 20, 2001 8:00 AM
> To: 	geeta.patel at verizon.net
> Cc: 	p.bacchetta at worldnet.att.net; shohini at giasdl01.vsnl.net.in;
> alakshmi at firstclass.wellesley.edu; rajini.srikanth at umb.edu;
> seshadrk at bc.edu; kvis at mail.utexas.edu; aarondek at cats.ucsc.edu;
> Reader-list at sarai.net; sabooks at juno.com; ic23 at hotmail.com;
> wallacep at missouri.edu
> Subject: 	Re: Fw: THE BURDEN OF SANITY
> 
> To my colleagues. I appreciate receiving these messages and will do what
> I can from this end. The Sikhs also are under attack, and am working with
> Sikh groups on that score. Americans have gone over the edge in many
> instances,and we need to get their attention and focus.
> NG Barrier
> Paul, for your information.J
> 
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:18:02 -0400 "Geeta Patel"
> <geeta.patel at verizon.net> writes:
> > This is from an organization in Karachi that has been involved in
> > alternative organizing for a while, please circulate. Ajmal sent it 
> > out to
> > all the people I had sent a message to.  g
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ajmal Kamal <city_press at email.com>
> > To: Geeta Patel <geeta.patel at verizon.net>
> > Cc: Kath Weston <kath.weston at verizon.net>; Jason Foster
> > <maabus1999 at hotmail.com>; Aparna Sen <aparnasen at hotmail.com>; 
> > Carolyn
> > Dinshaw <carolyn.dinshaw at nyu.edu>; 
> > <judith.diane.weston at hotmail.com>;
> > <LBerlant at aol.com>; Holly Hughes <HHughes334 at aol.com>; Aishwarya
> > Lakshmiratan <alakshmi at wellesley.edu>; AAJ <aaj at digicom.net.pk>; 
> > Neloufer de
> > Mel <neloufer at sltnet.lk>; Anindyo Roy <a_roy at colby.edu>; Jyotirmoy 
> > Chaudhuri
> > <crawlybug at hotmail.com>; Ziauddin Sardar <zsardar at compuserve.com>; 
> > Zia
> > Ziauddin <ziaziauddin at yahoo.com>; VIVIECHANA 
> > <vivechana at yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 11:10 AM
> > Subject: THE BURDEN OF SANITY
> > 
> > 
> > > In the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pantagon 
> > on 11
> > > September 2001, there is a real danger of the US government and 
> > people
> > > bahaving
> > > irresponsibly and putting the world peace in danger. Apprehension 
> > have
> > > been
> > > expressed regarding a deterioration in the treatment of Muslims 
> > living
> > > the US as
> > > a result of these tragic events. The following is an appeal to the 
> > US
> > > authorities and citizens for maintaining sanity.
> > >
> > > 1. Although the FBI's initial investigations are reported to 
> > indicate
> > > that the
> > > hijackers, who delibrately crashed the commercial aircrafts with
> > > civilian
> > > pasengers on board, were Arabs who had entered the US and gained 
> > access
> > > to the
> > > training facilities in flying inside the country abusing the laws 
> > in
> > > force, the
> > > entry of people of the Arab or other Muslim origin and their 
> > access to
> > > such
> > > training and other facilities  in the US must not be curtailed.
> > >
> > > 2. Although the Taliban have ordered all non-Muslim foreigners to 
> > leave
> > > Afghanistan at once, the US authorities must not consider 
> > deporting
> > > Arab,
> > > Afghan, Pakistani and other Muslims living in the US.
> > >
> > > 3. The US legislature must not make law that would result in the
> > > discriminatory
> > > treatment of the Muslim immigrants living in the US in the manner
> > > Pakistan's
> > > Qadianis are treated after the country's National Assembly passed 
> > the
> > > famous
> > > amendment to the constitution in 1974.
> > >
> > > 4. The US citizens must not attack the settlements of the Muslim
> > > immigrants as
> > > Qadiani settlements are occasionally attacked in Pakistan 
> > resulting in
> > > death and
> > > injury to men, women and children and damage to their property.
> > >
> > > 5. In case of any such attacks on Muslims in the US police must 
> > not
> > > arrest the
> > > victims of the attacks just as several Qadiani families (men, 
> > women and
> > > children) - victims of an attack by Muslims in a town in Punjab,
> > > Pakistan, a few
> > > weeks ago - were arrested and locked up inside the police station
> > > because,
> > > according to the police, "they were not safe outside."
> > >
> > > 6. The Muslims living in the US must not be regularly killed in 
> > ones and
> > > twos as
> > > those belonging to the minority Shia community are being killed in
> > > Karachi and
> > > other cities of Pakistan these days.
> > >
> > > 7. The people of USA should refrain from harassing Muslim 
> > consulting
> > > physicians
> > > and surgeons working here the way Shia consulting physicians and
> > > surgeons are
> > > being threatened regularly in Pakistan. Several such doctors were 
> > given
> > > three
> > > days to sell off their property and leave Pakistan (on pain of 
> > getting
> > > killed)
> > > in the last few months. Most complied and moved to the US. It 
> > would be
> > > rather
> > > unjust if they are asked to leave the US and return to Pakistan 
> > where
> > > they are
> > > likely to be murdered.
> > >
> > > 8. The angered people of the US must not attack the places of 
> > worship of
> > > different sects of the US Muslim community in the manner these 
> > people
> > > attack
> > > each other's places of worship in Pakistan, resulting in multiple 
> > deaths
> > > of
> > > people praying inside.
> > >
> > > 9. The religious freedom of the Muslims in the US must continue to 
> > be
> > > guaranteed. In the incident mentioned in 5 above, the Qadianis 
> > were
> > > planning to
> > > watch on satellite TV a speech by their religious leader, which 
> > the
> > > majority
> > > community did not allow them to do. They shifted their gathering 
> > to a
> > > private
> > > house, on which their place of worship, which they are not allowed 
> > to
> > > call a
> > > "masjid", was attacked and damaged. There should be no such 
> > treatment of
> > > the
> > > Muslims in the US.
> > >
> > > 10. The US citizens belonging to the majority community must not 
> > scare
> > > the
> > > Muslims by conducting public meetings inside their neighbourhoods 
> > with
> > > speakers
> > > making derogatory remarks againts their religion and religious 
> > leaders
> > > such as
> > > the Pakistan's majority commuinity routinely does inside the 
> > settlements
> > > of
> > > Qadianis and Shias.
> > >
> > > 11. In general, the US (and other western countiries) must 
> > continue to
> > > grant
> > > visa, immigrant status and nationality to the liberal minds of the
> > > Muslim
> > > countries because they have a danger to be persecuted, harassed 
> > and even
> > > killed
> > > in their native countries.
> > >
> > > The US authorities and citizens should display sanity and do the 
> > above
> > > and much
> > > more. And, they must not ask the present sermonizer why the 
> > governments
> > > and
> > > citizens of Muslim countries should not be urged to do the same 
> > with the
> > > "aliens" living there.
> > 
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