Word: gulayã
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...hard to know where to begin criticizing Erol N. Gulay??s Nov. 29 comment (“Iraq: Our Very Own Dafur [sic]”). Here, at least, is one candidate. In analogizing Sudanese government actions in Darfur with U.S. government actions in Iraq, Gulay conceals nothing less than the central feature of the Darfur conflict: That it is a genocide. Genocidal perpetrators, according to the 1948 Genocide Convention, harbor “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.” Gulay describes the wars...
...Gulay??s foolhardy equation of U.S. troops in Iraq to the genocidal janjaweed in Darfur "(Comment, Iraq: Our Very Own Dafur [sic],” Nov. 29) is so thoroughly lacking in credibility that it would normally not merit a response, but his argument is so offensive to the hundreds of thousands of slaughtered, raped, starved, burned or otherwise annihilated victims of the horrific Sudanese genocide that it cannot be excused, even by his obvious ignorance of the situation...
...wonder what the purpose of Erol Gulay??s Comment (and its accompanying illustration...
...Erol N. Gulay??s February 23rd opinion article, “The Misunderstanding of the Christ” demonstrates an unfamiliarity with its subject, Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion of the Christ.” It would not surprise me to hear that he had not seen the film when he wrote his column criticizing...
Gulay accuses Gibson of antisemitism: “Gibson never wants people to forget that we are ultimately responsible for his Lord crucifixion. And by people I mean the Jews.” I’d like to hear Gulay??s justification for this, since his article provides none. I saw the film last night, and if Gibson had an antisemitic agenda, he failed miserably. Simon the Cyrenian emerges as a major hero in the second half of the film. As in the gospels, one of the thieves (yes, a Jew) is seen as a sympathetic figure...
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