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...weren’t incentive enough, rampant housing discrimination makes Tibet a nice prospect for any Chinese entrepreneur. Most of the new subsidized housing—which the Chinese government made room for by razing thousands of Tibetan monuments—are given to new “Chinese settlers?? to provide these new-age colonizers with the most comfortable facilities available. If current trends continue, the Tibetans may become a minority in their own homeland...
...York Sun story, Stern was quoted as saying that while Muslim clerics are being called on to condemn Muslim extremist violence, “Catholic priests are not stepping up to condemn those who kill abortion doctors…[and] rabbis are not condemning the violent settlers?? movement...
European settlers in Kenya felt that “Mau Mau adherents did not belong to the human race,” claims Elkins. She compares the vilification of Jews with settlers?? characterizations of Mau Mau. These European settlers described the important Mau Mau initiation oath—which involved goat intestines, blood-drinking, the eating of raw flesh, and so on—as “bestial” and un-Christian. I must confess that I do not understand the zinger in her argumentation. Lest anyone forget, Mau Mau was a violent movement whose initiation...
...European settlers?? fear of death at Mau Mau’s hands ignited a vicious colonial response that is damning, to be sure. But Britain’s colonial empire in East Africa was not an unambiguously evil empire. In what is today Tanzania, immediately south of Kenya, and where fewer settlers lived, the British replacement of the German colonial power in the wake of World War I saved the lives of many Africans, who were oppressed and persecuted substantially more by the German government. There, the British used their might to finally put an end to slavery...
...opinion with which one may agree or disagree—but it was outrageous to dismiss the argument as “anti-Semitic.” Financial support from the American government, private Americans both Jewish and Christian, the American armaments industry and American Jewish “settlers?? of the West Bank have all enabled Israel’s defiant persistence with policies such as the bulldozing of Palestinian villages, closing off water supplies, denial of internationally established human rights and aggressive, escalating retaliation. Our whole world pays a devastating price (because of Islamic extremists?...
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