In message <D9BCB5E9-F76A-401E-830B-3EDB22236C87(a)philwelch.net>et>, Philip
Welch <wikipedia-RE/bwZxTIQaLZ21kGMrzwg(a)public.gmane.org> writes
On May 20, 2006, at 2:13 AM, abu hamza wrote:
hi Philip,
like i said, the few references we have on shipmans background
claim him to
be jewish
Those references are *not reliable*. It's unacceptable to put
unreliable information in the wiki, period.
If it was reliably established that he was Jewish, there would be no
problem. Since it isn't reliably established, reporting that he was
Jewish, or that he might be Jewish, constitutes anti-Semitism.
Why are you so hell-bent on making this poorly-supported case that he
is Jewish, anyway?
Indeed, I live in the same TV broadcast area as Hyde, where Shipman
committed his murders, so it was BIG news locally - and as far as I can
recall Shipman's religious affiliation if any was NEVER mentioned in the
exhaustive reporting of his crimes, the trial, and the public enquiry.
It simply was completely irrelevant to the commission of his crimes and
anyone seeking to introduce this religious/ethnic characterisation into
his article should be required to prove relevance as well as
incontrovertible prove the truth of the assertion with high-quality
references.
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Arwel Parry
http://www.cartref.demon.co.uk/