Portrait of "Hater" who vandalized Islamic School

 

I agree with this point in your editorial  today ("A hateful Act", Feb.18) on the vandalism of the Islamic School of Rhode Island: any attempt to blame one billion Muslims for this is deeply unjust.

My image of this guy (it must be a guy!) is right out of Harper's Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." He is not a professional terrorist. He is not a professional anything. He is a poorly educated, ignorant, unemployed drunk. He does not write letters-to-the-editor. He has his own graffiti skills. I give you our very own West Warwick version of Bob Ewell– "the white trash" of Harper Lee's novel.

This sort of EVIL has deep social roots. Bob Ewell was also a victim of hopeless poverty, unemployment, and ignorance. He found SOMEBODY to look down on from his own hellish pit. (just a guess, of course).

                                                                                                                                        

Submitted to: letters@providencejournal.com

London mayor slanders Islamic males

I just read this on the BBC internet news: "London mayor Boris Johnson: Extremists PORN DRIVEN." He says that Islamic males driven to acts of terrorism have low self-esteem and are unsuccessful with women, "likely to be severe Onanists."

This is not meant to be a discreet profile of potential terrorists. It is meant to smear ALL young males of the Islamic faith. Reading this, I recalled how Islamic males were sexually abused and raped at the U.S. controlled Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. We are just getting the details from the CIA torture report.

REUTERS: Saddam Saleh, a former prisoner at Abu Ghraib, shows a photograph at a 2004 press conference from the scandal that includes him in the middle of a group of naked prisoners being mocked by Lynndie England. Eleven American soldiers, including three women, eventually were convicted in the case. But it was a woman named Lynndie England -- a U.S. Army Reserve specialist in the 372nd Military Police Company -- who became the face of the scandal.   

Does the Honorable Mayor of London care to comment on the OWNERS of the multi-billion dollar porn industry? Are they so well adjusted themselves and quite "successful" with women?  To be sure, Islamophobia is as much a growth industry as anti-Semitism.

To: letters@usatoday.com

But Charlie Hebdo was indeed Islamophobic trash, John

Link to Charlie Hebdo Magazine

John, I did do a background check on this cynical and nihilistic Charlie Hebdo magazine group in France. They did not belong to any great journalistic tradition, falling below American junk news tabloids in standards of accuracy and decency.

One comment rings true for this socialist- not interested in maliciously offending one fourth of the human population: "Charlie Hebdo wrote and drew about many issues but lost many readers over recent years because of its Islamophobia and racist content."

All the socialists with whom I associate completely reject terrorism as a sane political strategy. But we won't idealize these hateful New Atheist types, on the left or on the right.

And a lot of phony cant phrases in that huge demonstration in Paris. "Free Speech?" As American historian Howard Zinn points out in his "People's History of the United States," capitalist ownership of the news media tends to smother the free speech of ordinary people and nearly all third parties. I should know. I was a presidential elector for the Socialist Workers Party here in Rhode Island in 1980 and 1976. And a presidential elector for the American Communist Party way back in 1972.

Red Eye Radio is always unmasking sinister socialist plots-hatched even in the White House! But they never let any socialists speak for themselves.

Ron Ruggieri, Cranston

To: John DePetro <john@630wpro.com>

Obama right to snub mass hysteria Islamophobia

 As a socialist I can only encourage mass action in the streets in defense of democratic values. But beware cant phrases like "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: And "Free World." Can't we at least make our world safe for our ONE PERCENT plutocracy?

Forget about Equality and Fraternity. Not long ago our very patriotic Cold War fanatics wanted to end Godless Communism with a nuclear bang. I just heard right-wing Red Eye Radio here in Rhode Island ( 630wpro.com ) suggest the same thing for quickly ending the scourge of international terrorism. "Obama is weak!" they rant.

President Obama is wise to snub mass hysteria Islamo-phobia – in France or here in the United States. Cant phrases start wars- as in the Great War, the war to make the world "safe for democracy... the war to end all wars."

Would Ayn Rand ask you to die for bourgeois Free Speech? That is not in keeping with the "Virtue of Selfishness." And it is so cozy in your Wall Street office. $$$ is the business of America. Let working class suckers fight your wars!

( Comment  on Houston Chronicle article: "White House: U.S. should have sent other officials to Paris",  Jan 12, 2015 )