Re: Israel
"Afdhere Jama" <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:20:27 -0800
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salam, omar, thank you for the message. yes, i definitely agree i would be advocating what i'm fighting against when i say "lets not worry about israel" -- but i say that in terms of "balance." of course, i would never want the palestinian people to become forgotten victims like the kurds, etc. but at the same time, balance please :) afdhere Afdhere Jama Editorial Director HURIYAH Publications S A N F R A N C I S C O [email protected] http://www.huriyahmag.com >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: RE: [Progressivemuslimsnetwork] Israel >Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:58:38 -0500 > >Salaams Afdhere, > >I believe you make a good point about keeping focus on the suffering of non-palestinian groups. But may you be committing the same transgression to which you so rightly point in the disproportionate misallocation of our attention when you affirm things like "lets not worry about israel. israel gets enough criticism from its own people"? > >Theoretically, we must never prioritize the suffering of one over another. murder is murder. rape is rape. But when we must come to the pragmatic decisions of allocating scarce resources (monetary as well as emotional), can we agree that awareness of the sufferin g of neglected Others is an intrinsic good, to which we must do all we can, and then some. > >But the means we use to acheive these ends is instructive: we need not redeem the suffering of one, but diminishing the suffering of another. > >And of course, God knows best, of the best path in these difficult matters. > >-Omar SUltan Haque ><< message3.txt >> ---------- Click here for a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee.