NNS,
Quite right. Unfortunately, it is the cultural Marxists who now have control of our education system, and the other side is too timid to do anything about it.

Shadow Minister,

We can read into people's actions and motives all
sorts of things that suit our own personal
beliefs. I am wary of accusations of
anti-semitism coming from people who do have an
obvious axe to grind and would use events to suit
their own political agendas. No matter who they are.

Be they former Political Directors of the Australasian
Union of Jewish Students or Editors of Sydney University
Students newspapers.

As I've already stated - the man in question was invited
by the university to speak. The university felt it
important enough that he be heard. Those who chose to
boycott the lecture (I suspect it was a small minority)
were free to do so. Academic freedom is after all a
matter of choice. I'm sure that the lecture went ahead
despite the attempt of trying to make a political furphy
out of it all.

In a university there should be room for different views.
Even ones that chose to boycott someone's lecture - for
whatever reason. The man was not stopped from speaking.
And attending the lecture was up to individual choice.

ttbn,

You were the one who attacked.
Falsely accused me of something I did not do.
I was forced to respond and explain.

But again - you don't care for explanations.

You only want to continue to attack and condemn.

Your posts speak for themselves..

Dear NNS,

Many claim that there's no such thing as "objective history."

In discussing historic events, one camp may call for
uncompromising indictment, while another, if not denying
may call for extenuating circumstances. The historian can
establish that an act took place on a certain day, but this
by historical standards constitutes only chronology. The
moment that a historian begins to look critically at
motivation, circumstances, context, or any other such
considerations, the product becomes unacceptable for one or
another camp of readers.

Many people are usually more interested in condemnation than
in explanation which unfortunately often leads to the
questionable practice of stereotyping people and nations.

Often times people themselves are reluctant to modify their
judgements. And continued stereotyping of any nation can
encourage "counter-stereotyping" and the result is usually
a complete breakdown in communication.

As is clear in the case of - the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

I think having Yasmin share on how good Islam is for women is more appropriate.

Foxy,

Of course my posts speak for themselves. You have made the same brilliant observation before. So do yours. They show you to be a nagging, know-all harpie who just has to put everybody you disagree with 'to rights', including people who are not even addressing you. On several occasions, I have asked another poster a question or made a remark, and you stick your bib in and speak for them. You do the same to other posters to. I recommend the old exhortation 'speak when you are spoken to'. Despite your sense of entitlement and self-importance, the rest of us are not gagging for your opinion on everything. You are a control freak who thinks everyone needs your protection from posters like me. Noone, and I mean noone, is a bigger pain in the backside than you are.

To Foxy.

What do you think would resolve the issues of bigotry, or even swapping one firm of bigotry for another?

For me there are several elements of my heritage that I am proud of. Religous heritage, national heritage and cultural heritage in other areas. But on the same level there are many parts of my heritage that throw my history through the ringer. Crimes and casualties by those I come from, either from my family, my faith, or my country as a whole. It shouldn't take a huge indepth history lesson to get to the details to humble your roots. Without knowing the motivation, or needing to know it, there are abuses made on others by each of our forefathers.

On one hand this can be fuel against me or those like me and spread it's own bigotry. Even have people of the same heritage turn against those abuses and say we are the bad guys and deserve a horrible and swift correction. But to study your own history and know things to be proud of can buffer against this. Know you have faults, and your heritage has faults, but they both have parts to stand by and say your proud to be who you are. Such a view in my opinion should curb bigotry in others because of the knowledge that you're no better. Yet still hold to finding justice to anyone instead of blaming yourselves because there's nothing to be proud of.