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From: martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo)
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Subject: Tutu Makes a DooDoo
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Date: Sat, 29-Dec-84 20:34:42 EST
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In a rather disgusting  address  presented  at  the  Jewish  Theological
Seminary,  Desmond  Tutu showed himself unfit to have received the Nobel
Peace Prize.  Tutu showed immense bigoted  bias  by  ignoring  the  Arab
Jewish  dimension  the Middle Eastern question. He was upset that Israel
had to drive  out  some  of  the  Muslims  who  fought  to  prevent  the
establishment of the state of Israel.  Given the treatment which Muslims
traditionally have given to Jews and other non-Muslims, the  Muslims  in
Israel   received  much  less  than  they  deserved  by  Middle  Eastern
standards.  Clearly, Tutu's racist bigotry  lead  him  to  address  this
issue  rather  than the multitudes of heinous acts which take place much
too frequently in Muslim countries.

Tutu cited the wall of separation  between  Jews  and  Gentiles  at  the
temple  in  Jerusalem  as  a  model  for  the racial separation in South
Africa.  This is simply just disgusting bigoted racial antiSemitism from
the worst of the nineteenth century German critique of Judaism.  Judaism
recognizes that there are righteous non-Jews who wish to worship the one
true God.  However there is no obligation for such righteous non-Jews to
adopt Jewish ways.  If such a righteous non-Jew were  to  have  come  to
Jerusalem  2000  years  ago, as one of a few non-Jews worshipping at the
temple, he could easily have  felt  himself  under  pressure  to  become
Jewish.   The  wall of separation prevented such pressure.  If he wished
to become Jewish, he might do so and then worship on the other side  but
Judaism  works  hard to avoid pressuring non-Jews in this fashion unlike
-- I should point out -- Islam or Christianity.  The Jews of  the  Getto
in  Venice  historically were forced to attend Catholic services so that
they might be more susceptible to pressure to  become  Christian.   This
compulsory worship among the Christian congregation was an expression of
bigotry.  The wall of separation was  an  expression  of  tolerance  and
magnanimity.

Tutu  like Brutus before him then went on to express sympathy for Muslim
nationalist causes.  Anyone who has the slightest  knowledge  of  Muslim
nationalist  causes  realizes  very  quickly that a large part of Muslim
nationalist causes is beating on non-Muslim minorities.  After  learning
of  Tutu's  and  Brutus'  support  of barbaric Islamic movements, I must
suspect that perhaps they campaign for majority rule in South Africa  in
order  to  establish  the right of the black majority to persecute white
and asian minorities (as in fact has been the case in several nations in
East  Africa)  just as Muslim majorities apparently inevitably persecute
non-Muslim minorities.  Therefore, while I find apartheid disgusting (in
fact  several  of  my  family  members  have been refused entry to South
Africa for constituting mixed marriages -- many South  Libyan  Jews  are
dark  like  Indians), I am beginning to feel that supporting people like
Tutu and Brutus is inappropriate because deep down these people  do  not
care  for  justice  but wish instead to establish majority oppression to
replace minority oppression.