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May 07, 2005
'Nothing Is Hate Speech When Directed Against Arabs'
Ihor Slissarenko, a journalist and scholar based in Kiev, Ukraine, had this to say about a diplomatic situation involving Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany: To my deep satisfaction, I have learned that Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany was forced to apologize publicly and through diplomatic channels for his sick jokes about the Saudi football team as terrorists. I believe Gyurcsany personally has nothing against Saudi Arabia, Arabs or Muslims. Even more, as a former ruling Communist Party functionary, he was taught and used to teach the fellow Hungarians to respect other nations as parts of an international solidarity. It is sad that from the very beginning of the scandal he tried to justify himself telling he had made his comments in the context of a TV show parody, and blamed all who protested for political intolerance or even ill will.
Slissarenko said, "It seems Gyurcsany was really surprised that his jokes could lead to such negative consequences for him and his country, as though political correctness does not apply to the statesmen and politicians if they speak about or against Arabs and Muslims." Here's more of "Nothing Is Hate Speech When Directed Against Arabs."
Posted by Munir Umrani at May 7, 2005 06:54 PM
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