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Up early; disappointed to see the Government's inept handling of Wilders.
Similarly amazed by the Muslim council's attitude; at least from what I've
seen Fitna the movie is apparently an attack on the tiny minority
of Muslims that apply a selective and barbaric hermeneutic to the Qu'ran and
act on that: empirically such people exist, and use the texts he highlights.
Given that context, surely a moderate Islamic response is to use the opportunity
here, to not only condemn Geert Wilders (for his lack of balance), but to
strenuously separate the peace-loving,
vast-majority of Muslims from the pernicious and frankly cowardly minority -
that apparently lauds the beheading of defenceless captives in cold blood (as
an example). It is mildly distressing to see Geert being roundly condemned as
a fascist, but an apparent silent condoning of the fanatical Ideologues, the
likes of al-Zarqawi, to whom the term might more accurately apply. Demanding
censorship of such a film, while simultaneously not robustly mirroring his
message of condemnation of such views is really concerning. People will
see it, and they desperately need to know know that the vast majority of
Muslims do not share this interpretation, and are no risk to them; who
will tell them ? Who will persuade all Muslims to avoid anti-semitism
and intolerance if their spokesmen will not ?
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Dug at mail. Tried to fix a yast2 bug, and had all manner of grief
with both sudo and su - eventually realised it was down to stracing my
whole session; good to fix that. Fixed a nasty entity handling issue in
the yast2-gtk HTML -> XHTML conversion, HTML is truly nasty.
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Spent some time analysing our packages, patch counts and so on,
requested FTO for Tuesday, worked on documents, not code.
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created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
