TALKING POINTS:
Please write your own
letter. Be firm but POLITE. Some important points to consider are:
·
The editorial fails to mention over 1,000 Palestinian
deaths, injuries, summary detentions, house demolitions, humiliating
checkpoints, uprooting of trees, illegal settlements, assassinations, and the
brutality of living under 34 years of an illegal military occupation.
·
Statements such as "But even by the barbaric standards
of the Arab Middle East..." clearly paints all Arabs with the same brush
and elicits hatred and racial slander.
·
Other slanderous statements include:
o
‘Why can't some Muslims agree that killing innocent
non-Muslims is unacceptable?"’
o
‘Part of the problem lies with Muslim civilization itself’,
which would be unacceptable if they
were made about any other ethnic group in the world.
Moreover, they are typical of the rhetoric
that is emerging from troubled area.
Such comments are not only unacceptable, but incite hatred and further
dehumanizing stereotypes at a time when rational thought is needed more than
ever.
Southam Head Office
Edmonton Journal
Peace.