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

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Agreed. - Ken

On 6 Oct 2002 at 14:17, Brian van Dam wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
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