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Posted June 1, 2001
Where are the Antiwar.com Moslems?
I read news and articles at your site almost regularly. A good portion of what I read is related to the Middle East. …In the conflict(s) that are going on in the Middle East, there is more than one side. …For your site to be better, in almost all aspects, including honesty, I recommend that you do not belittle, ignore, or dismiss the other viewpoint, by not allowing it. It is not right that not a single Arab name, and not a single Muslim name, has a place on your main page. …I believe there should be more than one straight Arab name, and more than one straight Muslim name on the main page of your site.
~ B. Al-Tamimi
Antiwar.com often links from our homepage to articles by Moslems and Arabs, and we encourage you to email us with any appropriate articles that we may have missed. You might also consider starting your own, Arab-oriented, anti-interventionist site.
~ SK
Forget Yugoslavia?
Mr. Malic, in one of his articles, states that Kosova should still be called Yugoslavia. This has been Serbian propaganda that Mr. Malic has been influenced by. Mr. Malic calls the UCK (KLA) thugs but he doesn't call the Serbian government thugs who killed women and children. He criticizes NATO for backing the Albanians 'cause he is upset for what NATO has done to Serbia, which was well deserved. Reading Mr. Malic's articles I have noticed the sympathy for Serbia, but trying to back a country who has killed women and children is wrong even if your are a Bosnian Serb.
In my opinion, Mr. Malic should try and forget about the former Yugoslavia, which doesn't exist anymore. Only the Serbs believe that it does. He should stop trying to blame the UCK (KLA) for the break up of Yugoslavia and start putting the blame on the Serbs.
~ Rocky Camaj
Nebojsa Malic replies:
Serbia still very much exists, and "Kosova" is still a figment of the KLA's imagination, as much as the UN and NATO work on it becoming a reality. However repugnant it is: women and children die in wars - whether they are killed by the US government, the KLA (which kills civilians as a policy) or "the Serbs" (who don't). As for my sympathies, I have not yet heard a coherent argument as to why I should change any of my positions -- just a heavily opinionated claim that Yugoslavia's collapse should be "blamed on the Serbs." That's exactly what the War Party media have been doing over the past ten years, and their credibility is something none of us at Antiwar.com (at least I hope so) takes for granted.
Dangerous Precedent
[Regarding Justin Raimondo's column, "In Memoriam":]
Whatever your view of Roosevelt, referring to him as "the old cripple himself" is uncalled for and mean. Please imagine what one of your ideological opponents could do with Reagan's Alzheimer's disease.
~ I. Laugel