Re: OfB.biz: It's Official: SCO Declares IP Jihad on Linux

Bob Rea <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
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On Tuesday 06 May 2003 11:53 pm, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> > Sort of like "bin Laden" was blended into "Iraq", now
> > "terrorist" is being blended into "Muslim".  It's even
> > worse what comes out of Hollywood - but I guess we can
> > be pretty sure it is not Muslims that control the
> > content of Hollywood propaganda ;-).

I want to thank whoever started this thread for starting me 
to think. The transfer of "jihad" from literal to 
metaphorical, once pointed out to me, set off an alarm in 
my mind. The identification of moslems with terrorists and 
the Homeland security moves that go with it struck me as 
parallel to a certain european anti-semitism of the last 
century. No, I'm not calling them Nazis, no I'm not 
invoking the Hitler effect, whatever that's called. But the 
ears of my mind have pricked up with a slight alarm. I will 
watch more carefully.

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