Blair, Olympic deals and the glimpse of another Britain
John Pilger
July 19, 2012
http://www.johnpilger.com/articles/blair-olympic-deals-and-the-glimpse-of-another-britain
I urge everyone to read something quite amazing: Mehanna’s incredibly eloquent, thoughtful statement at his sentencing hearing, before being given a 17-year prison term.
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/13/the_real_criminals_in_the_tarek_mehanna_case/singleton/
“Might one say the same for Muslims and the Koran? Along those lines, just imagine what would happen if a Muslim army invaded the U.S., violently occupied the country for more than a decade, in the process continuously killing American children and innocent adults, and then, outside of a prison camp it maintained where thousands of Americans were detained for years without charges and tortured, that Muslim army burned American flags — or a stack of bibles — in a garbage dump. Might we see some extremely angry protests breaking out from Americans against them? Would American pundits be denouncing those protesters as blinkered, primitive fanatics?”
Glenn Greenwald
(Source: salon.com)
