Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mcgill-vision.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!micomvax!musocs!mcgill-vision!system From: system@mcgill-vision.UUCP (System Manager) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Islam (long but informative) Message-ID: <107@mcgill-vision.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 13:23:27 EDT Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.107 Posted: Fri Aug 9 13:23:27 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 05:58:57 EDT References: <3200043@uiucdcsb> Organization: McGill University, Montreal Lines: 26 Since we just started to get the net news, I do not know how this discussion originated, but I find the following comment quite offensive: > What I meant in my previous responce was that only the Turks > have never created or contributed anything but only distroyed > (and they continue to do that) whatever they find in their pass. > They definitely contributed and still contribute barbarians to humanity. (by cdp@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA, no personal signature) I am not a nationalist at all, but I happen to be a Turk, and a generalization like the one above includes me and friends that I like in the group of people who destroy 'whatever they find in their pass' (sic). Friends here at the Computer Vision and Robotics Lab where I happen to be the system manager seem to think that I am rather constructive. Turk or not, I think this kind of discriminatory generalizations about nations or races should be kept out of the discussions here, or at least should be accompanied whith comments like 'My personal opinion is...' instead of 'They definitely contributed and still contribute barbarians to humanity.' Cem Eskenazi ...{ihnp4,decvax,....}!utcsri!mcgill-vision!system McGill University Electrical Engineering Montreal, Que. Tel.: (514) 392 5396