[UA] Guilty!

[Stacy Stroud]

At 09:31 PM 4/15/02 +0100, you wrote:
>  There's still no guilty party, and for all we
>know this could have been Arabs, American Militia, the French, or Space
>Aliens. But the Muslims are guilty until proven innocent. Silent, they left
>the group. The war has begun."

Er, this reads more to me like a commentary on an attitude common right 
after 9/11, before we knew anything for sure.  The author might even be 
truthfully reporting his own opinion at the time, but I don't think this is 
meant to support that attitude so much as to call attention to it, and 
probably to deprecate it in a sort of "I felt this.  You felt this.  Admit 
it.  Feel bad." way.

But that's just my immediate reaction to the single quoted paragraph.  It's 
possible that something else in the passage gives clues as to how to 
interpret this last bit.



Stacy Stroud (deadstop at gte.net)
Hex Entertainment, Inc. (http://www.hexgames.com)


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