Posted on 01/30/2010 8:37:17 PM PST by PRePublic
Racism in Lebanon?
Commenters Respond to Ethiopian Airline 409 Tragedy January 30, 2010 Joshua Hersh Emotions have run hot in the aftermath of the Ethiopian Airlines crash, and this has resulted in some visceral exchanges between Ethiopians and Lebanese. If it wasnt already evident, this episode has made clear that there is a great deal of anger on both sides, but especially on behalf of Ethiopians, who feel deeply mistreated and abused by the Lebanese. Rather than opine more on this, I thought Id just pull a few of the more evocative comments I received from my earlier blog post (in which I challenged the easy assessment of all Lebanese as racist). /
(Excerpt) Read more at thefastertimes.com ...
Brother Muslims or not, Arabs are HUGE racists, esp. against Africans.
Ethiopian Airline 409 Tragedy: Racism in Lebanon? | ECADF ...30 Jan 2010 ... Ethiopian Airlines was at one point flying out of Beirut with 2 bodies each week of young Ethiopian housemaids.
http://ecadforum.com/blog/?p=3239
Ethiopia | Flight ET409 Exposes Lebanon’s Racist Underbelly5 posts - 3 authors - Last post: 3 days ago
But if, in reaction to the coverage, some are seeing the revelation of Lebanon’s racist underbelly,
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17594
Racism In Islaam The Arabic word in this verse that means BLACK is HAMAA: .... the Prophet Muhammad is a white man in his racist attempt to promote white supremacy disguised ...
http://kushite.webs.com/
Was The Prophet Muhammad A White Slave Owning RacistIn Arabic the common word for black is “Abd” which also means “slave”. ... They also say that, Christianity is white supremacy and the doctrine of....
http://www.angelfire.com/ill/hebrewisrael/blackmuslims.html
Does this come as a surprise considering that Arabs were once the premier slave traders of Africans?
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