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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
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Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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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