Thursday, January 29, 2009
Australian activist sorry for anti-Semitic remarks
A human rights activist living in Australia has apologized to the Jewish community over his high-profile anti-Semitic remarks.
Maqsood Alshams, who had organized a conference on Palestine to be held Thursday at the New South Wales Parliament House, called off the event Wednesday after a furor erupted over his anti-Semitic remarks, including describing Jews as "motherf------ bastards."
Maqsood, a Bangladesh-born asylum seeker who founded the Asia Pacific Human Rights Institute, wrote the remarks in private e-mails.
"I am ashamed to say they were made at a time when I was intoxicated and angry," Alshams said. "Of course, there is no excuse for such remarks."...
So they let this guy in the country and this is what they get? Nothing says Human Rights more than getting plastered and dissing the Jews.
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guy said:
"I am ashamed to say they were made at a time when I was intoxicated and angry,Of course, there is no excuse for such remarks."
and you say:
"So they let this guy in the country and this is what they get? Nothing says Human Rights more than getting plastered and dissing the Jews."
plus the meeting was called off to show that antisemitism is a bad thing i guess.
where do you see problem. maybe he didn't called it off to your taste???
An intoxicated Muslim?
I thought Muslims were not supposed to drink alcohol.
...the "problem," baxul, is that it's very telling that the first impulse of many muslims and lefties, when discussing what it's purportedly a political conflict involving the borders between states, is to hump on the mofo Jews. Not Israel. Not its policies. It's the mofo Jews. When a sainted shahid blows himself up in an Israeli cafe, Jews in Los Angeles don't take to the streets excoriating the mofo muslims...no they ask you "dialog" or "co-existence." But for an Bangladeshi ingrate in Australia it's the mofo Jews. Kifaya (enough)!
baxul,
when dealing with Muslims there is that little problem with Taquiya.
This Bangladeshi a Bengali of whom Pakistan killed some 3 million between 1947 and the formation of Bangladesh in the 80s?