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Date Posted: 13:24:00 10/07/04 Thu
Author: Joe
Subject: Left vs. Right
In reply to: Chris 's message, "Re: Public opinion and the media" on 12:27:22 10/07/04 Thu

The issue of global terror and combatting radical Islam can actual serve to unite "right" and "left". For instance, Christopher Hitchens, hardly a "right wing nut", sees a rising fascism in the world, but it's not where his former leftist friends think it is.

>But even Americans should know that the simple
>equation "right=good" and "left=bad," and "the more
>right the better" cannot be true. Please keep in mind
>the things which are visible at the extreme right of
>the political spectrum, even in America, just think of
>Ku Klux Klan, "White Aryan Resistance" and other white
>nationalist, separatist or even "supremacist" groups
>and ideologies which are sometimes even linked with
>Christian fundamentalism. Remember the Oklahoma
>bombing by McVeigh - I think it was the worst bombing
>in the US before 9/11. Planned and executed by an
>ultra-right American, not a Muslim. I think Americans
>still have to learn the ugly face of nationalism and
>right-wing extremism. We Germans learned our lesson.
>(Well, there are also those Germans who forgot about
>history and votes for neo-facist parties again - see
>the recent discussion on the UBF forum).

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Re: Public opinion and the media -- UBFree, 14:37:28 10/07/04 Thu