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From: yoavh@nsc.UUCP (yoavh)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Jesse Jackson - the Petrodollar Stops Here
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Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 04:55:11 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  7 04:55:11 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 01:09:31 EST
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Mr. H. Reza Taheri is somewhat less than to the point in his reply to
my article:  
	
   	"I couldn't help but respond to your article.  You *just have to*
	include some insulting/racist/chauvinistic remark against Muslims
	and/or Arabs in all your articles..."

That he "couldn't help but respond" is evident from the hysterical tone
of the bizarre accusations contained in his note.  I certainly do not "have" 
to include some insulting, etc remark against Arabs or Muslims in all my
articles - the fact is, I have never included such remarks.  I challenge 
Mr. Taheri to produce such remarks.

	"Yes, I am a Muslim but not an Arab, if you must express your
 	 hatered.  Actually I am Iranian.  Does this make me worse on 
	 an enemy?"

Frankly, Mr. Taheri, I don't recall asking if you are a Muslim, nor did
I enquire as to your national origin.  In fact, before I saw your article
in net.politics I never knew of your existence.  At the risk of being 
trite, I have several Iranian friends, who, incidentally, had to leave 
Iran due to the activities of a certain fanatical Mr. Ayatollah Khomeini, 
who was busy butchering Iranian Jews and Bahais at the time.

	"Does my existence pose a treat to the well-being of you..."

Um, no, I wouldn't say that your existence poses a "treat" to me.
However, it does sort of bother me that people can read a short, reasonably
clear article about a news item and somehow construe it as a personal insult.
My sincere apologies for any hard feelings, Mr. Taheri - I assure you that
I did not write my article in order to offend you.  Let me restate the point
of my note:

  Jesse Jackson's organization PUSH recieved $200K from the Arab League, 
  the largest donation they had ever recieved.  The Arab League is not 
  exactly known as an organization devoted to "saving humanity" (thus I 
  conclude from their frequent calls to Jihad, holy war).  Mr. Jackson 
  recently travelled to Syria and performed some valuable PR for one of the 
  most vicious tyrants in the Middle East.  I find this noteworthy, and it 
  leads me to muse on a possible connection between these two facts.