Re: [Marxism] Malcolm X and Islam (was The "anti-semitism" of theoppressed, etc.??)

["cleon42@xxxxxxxxx" <cleon42@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Why not recognize the truth -- secular leftist organizations
> (including this listserv, PEN-l, and LBO-talk) have few women members
> and are not racially well integrated in the United States -- when you
> see it rather than deny it by dismissing it as a "bait"?

Yoshie, I sincerely doubt that Louis--or anyone reading this list who's
moderately connected with reality--has trouble seeing that.

> Besides, you may not realize it, but Iran and Palestine are at the
> center of US foreign policy, and Islam is the least understood
> religion in the West, the religion that happens to be the major part
> of cultures of the populations of the region that the multinational
> empire is bent on remaking.

All this is true. However, the centrality of the struggles in the
Middle East is *not* Islam. Imperialism's reasons for constantly
fighting over the Middle East has nothing to do with Islam, any more
than US support for Israel is because of its supposedly Jewish
character.

Adam


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