[Imc-aotearoa-ed] racist and factually incorrect post?

Brian van Dam imc-aotearoa-ed at lists.indymedia.org
Sun, 06 Oct 2002 14:17:31 +1300


Kia Ora All,
                            I feel the post below is both racist and 
factually incorrect.

http://www.indymedia.org.nz/front.php3?article_id=1362&group=webcast

Factually incorrect - because of its depiction of 4 photo's of arabic 
men who it claims to be S11 hijackers in the absence of any proof they 
were hijackers (the US govt has still not given any factual proof that 
any person was a hijacker).

Racist - because of the phrase ``garden of evil'' in the introductory 
section. This is a clear reference to the biblicial Garden of Eden, 
which is deemed to have been in the Saudi/middle east area, but has been 
twisted to reflect badly upon all Saudi's.

I would like to see this modified (photo's and `garden of evil' phrase 
removed) or hidden. Although this is clearly Victors work, I did not 
classify it as spam, cos the cut and pasted article is not in breach of 
the Ed policy (tho I don't agree with it).

Cheers,
            Brian.