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From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP (Farzin Mokhtarian)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Beirut Hostage Crisis (Not Really)
Message-ID: <1011@ubc-vision.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 18:50:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 24 18:50:48 1985
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Some time ago I said this:
  
>> Not too long ago  you were  advocating an `extermination' of muslim culture
>> because it is simply too `barbaric'. Now you are content with `suppression'
>> and `colonial  domination' of them?  Shame on you  Mr. Martillo! A wise and 
>> tough  person like you  should know better than soften his position against 
>> them savages. 

> I  have  not  changed  my  position  at  all;  suppression  and colonial
> domination amounts to cultural extermination.
   
I don't know if you are as cruel as your words but I know this:
  
Suppression and colonial domination have never amounted to cultural 
extermination except for less evolved cultures. Suppression of Jews in Europe
for centuries and colonial domination of Arabs in their homelands (also for a
long time) are good examples to show that you are wrong. Their cultures (good
or bad) are certainly still there.
  
>             By  the way I do not conceal my background, but to be honest
> in any discussion of the middle east you should tell us whether you  are
> some  sort of Muslim or rather an Armenian just brown-nosing your former
> Muslim masters.

Nice try Mr. Martillo! But ask me a little nicer next time. 
  
   Farzin Mokhtarian
   ubc-vision!mokhtar