[Wikipedia-l] Helga again

[Vicki Rosenzweig]

At 03:31 PM 9/4/02 -0700, you wrote:


>Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
> >
> > At 04:29 AM 9/4/02 -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> > >Michael R. Irwin wrote:
> > > >  The totality of the material
> > > > presented should not be selected to support the frame or view that
> > > > the Holocaust was undeserved.
> > >
> > >But, the Holocaust was undeserved.  That's as uncontroversial a fact as
> > >"The Earth goes around the Sun".
> >
> > Exactly. Otherwise we'd need to carefully avoid suggesting--on each of the
> > September 11 pages--that the victims were innocent. Either is absurd and
> > offensive.
>
>Absurd and offensive to who?  The prevailing mainstream
>Arab view seem pretty supportive of the attacks.

As far as I know, nobody--even the mainstream Arab press--is saying that the
individuals killed in the September 11 attacks were personally guilty of 
anything:
the argument by defenders of the attack is that this was an act of war, not 
that
people who happened to work at Windows on the World or Cantor Fitzgerald or
the NY Fire Department specifically deserved to die.
-- 
Vicki Rosenzweig
vr at redbird.org
http://www.redbird.org