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To: thedugal
"Several million Scots killed or forcibly exported, packed on ships 700+ per trip, conditions that were illegal for African slave ships even at the height of the trade"

There are so many outrageous lies in your account that one really does not know where to start. However let's just take your claim of "several million Scots" killed or forcibly exported:

"in a pamphlet published in 1784, it is stated that between the years 1763 and 1775 above *20,000* Highlanders *left their homes to settle on the other side of the Atlantic*."

"The author of the Gartmore paper, written about 1747, estimated that the *population of the Highlands* at that time amounted to about *230,000*"

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/hcbalance.htm


Another kind of anti-Semitism is the type that tries to diminish the suffering of the Jews by flat out lying about other events, like for example here. Ho hum.
20 posted on 05/06/2003 3:46:28 AM PDT by Tarsk
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To: Tarsk
First off, you're right, I did have a mind fart on the numbers. It's been awhile since I read the history and an account of 6 million had stuck in my head but upon review that is adjusted numbers to todays population. The Highland Clearances lasted from ~1760 to 1851. If anything is outrageous, it is quoting an article from 1784 published by the landowners themselves. The whole point is that Israel and the Jews are not the only oppressed or hated peoples on the planet, now nor historically. Whenever someone tries to make such a point they diminish the real horror of history as well as the political reality of today. There are Muslim clerics who are calling for Islam from California in the west to Tokyo in the east. Do you think that even if Israel were gone tomorrow those same Muslims would stand up and say, "Well, we are ready to live in peace with our Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and other brothers"?



24 posted on 05/06/2003 12:53:14 PM PDT by thedugal (Someone ping me when the shootin' starts...)
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