<font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I didn't send anything re: this topic on my KF Cynthia<br>
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From: Cynthia Vance <facilitationfla@aol.com><br>
To: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net>; Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
Sent: Tue, Sep 18, 2012 6:33 pm<br>
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<div style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"> <hr style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt"> <b>From:</b> Wayne Nelson <<a href="mailto:wnelson@ica-associates.ca">wnelson@ica-associates.ca</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tue Sep 18 11:59:33 EDT 2012<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Dialogue] Free Speech<br>
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I agree with Ken. There is a legal question related to hate crime. <br>
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This is my observation entirely. Within the Coptic community, there is an anti-Islamic theme born out of real state supported repression that surfaces in the form of totally implausible and extremely derogatory statements about Islam as a religion and Muslims as people. It is ugly and the the statements/stories I have heard are downright foolish. Repressed feelings often emerge in the most grotesque forms. <br>
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That does not justify any of that behaviour - and it ranges from stupid jokes that misuse language at the expense of islam all the way to something like this film which apparently wraps all of this hate into a narrative. It illuminates the repression in a way that perpetuates and strengthens the narrative. <br>
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Another thread I think is related to this is the strengthing of the drive to individualism. It seems to have totally run amok. Had he written today, Neibur might have written a couple more paragraphs and punched a bit harder. Reaching to a sense of common good is pretty difficult. Social consensus - even informal consensus on norms of social behavoiur - is damn difficult to achieve, it seems to me. <br>
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Every time we get people to work together, solve problems and resolve conflicts, we knock a brick out of that wall.<br>
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