[IMC-Boston-Editorial] Right wing articles

[Sofia JarrinT]

Sorry, Jamie, but I disagree.  I don't mind  having articles from a conservative point of view because I see how  having a dialogue about the issues is important, but articles from  Front Page Magazine (http://www.frontpagemag.com/index.asp) are outright propaganda.
  
  The Washington Post article is not an article per-se but an Op-Ed by a  right-winger, Joel Mowbray, big friend of the Bush administration.  That's why Front Page re-posted it there. See this quote, for example:
    
    "Among the most damning evidence to emerge were the ISB’s connections to  two high-profile radical Muslims, and the fact that the mosque’s  longtime leader was a co-founder and former vice-president of a  virulently anti-American and anti-Semitic organization that apparently  raised truckloads of cash to support Islamic terrorist."
  
  They don't have journalistic value, in my view, because they skew reality. 
  
  On the other hand, here's a good conservative article that I can live with:
  How the French Fight Terror
  http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3353
  "Could Paris teach Washington a thing or two about protecting civil  liberties while tracking down terrorists at home? In the United States,  revelations that the Bush administration mandated domestic spying have  caused a political uproar. France, however, has been spying on its  citizens for years, as part of its effective, albeit controversial,  counterterrorist system."
  
  Needless to say, I don't think Boston Indy needs to be a mouthpiece for  the right-wing.  I want to support articles that make readers  think, not stuff that demonizes a group of people.  Mainstream  media does enough of that.
  
  peace,
  Sofia

"visnusdream at juno.com" <visnusdream at juno.com> wrote:  I would leave them both up. One directly pertains to that Mosque  closing here in Boston. And one is extremely relevant to the  Palestinian elections this week. "Right wing" is not against our  policy. We have been hosting a lot of vigorous discussion about the  Israel/Palestinian problem. Our readers are the one's who exposed one  of these articles as a Washington Post repost. They are discussing the  author, etc. We need diverse views. I realize that the pro-Israel lobby  can dominate a discussion with identity politics sometimes, but we  don't seem to be lost in that quagmire yet, and most of our readership  will shut that sort of thing down anyway. As long as the facts are not  completely contrived, I think its important to remain as visibly  impartial as possible. Otherwise we are going to defeat our own  purposes: creating a place for people to discuss, debate, and  discover a wide variety of ideas and opinions. 
  Love,
  Jamie  
  PS Zionism is a racist idea, but its political reach is far  reaching. There needs to be someplace for people to discuss this stuff.  I think IMC is the place . .  . but to be that place we are going  to have to find some tolerance for the opposing views. 
  HAMAS is on the right side of some issues but it also has some  serious ideological flaws. We need to hear from people exposing these  issues. Its not the right wing poster I care about in this issue, its  the people who are trying to sort it all out. Which I think is a  lot of people. 
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