The Dialogue Of Cultures At Abu Ghraib

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....The occupation is also a group of young people eager to oppress an older generation and freely act out their sexual perversions, their sick imagination, prejudgments, hatred and racism against those under the occupation. It is a situation of control and control at the end is physical. Occupation is the absurd concept of leaving young men to control a people, protected by their uniforms and weapons. Free and democratic colonialism has generalized the right of control and oppression on all citizens. In dictatorships there are those who specialize in torture while in democratic systems the right to torture is everybody's. Ask the Palestinians! Average young men and women carry out torture. When some of us saw the image of nude men toppled over each other we were reminded of the pictures of corpses in the Auschwitz concentration camp, not that the comparison is scientific or precise but because it is a visual resemblance. I admit that there is no relation between the two but let us at least remember the Auschwitz crime took place in the heart of Western civilization and not in the "backward Islamic East." Furthermore, in what Bush and Sharon like to call the Judeo-Christian tradition, although we reject this term and its connotations, there is a frightening amount of physical violence whether the genocide against Native Americans and the Jewish genocide in Europe and the behavior with political dissidents and peoples under the occupation....


The Dialogue Of Cultures At Abu Ghraib....