Comments on: What is a 'stabbed Arab'?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:59:04 +0000

In reply to david attard jones. Most English people do not like the label British, because it is used by people who are NOT English.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:50:33 +0000

In reply to H.P. Baxxter. Ostra. Ghal darba kev qed jaghtini support fl-iscrum. Vas-y, kev, pousse, pousse!

By: kev

kev — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:43:03 +0000

In reply to H.P. Baxxter. Good point, Baxxter - ghidilhom! Qas tboss ma tista' bihom.

By: Joseph A Borg

Joseph A Borg — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:25:39 +0000

In reply to abram vella.

“does the truth hurt you”

What ‘truth’? That Israel is effectively an apartheid state? that Israel distinguishes between the creed and race of those living with in its borders? That Israeli Arabs lose their citizenship simply by studying abroad for more than a few months whilst anybody in the world (preferably white Ashkenazi) who claims Jewish ancestry is automatically given a passport and the chance to settle in occupied territories? A terrorist state that is actively discriminating against the legitimate population, hoarding them up in a ghetto?

Unfortunately mentioning “Israeli Jew” would risk you a verbal lynching of “anti-Semite” from the hoard Zionists connected to the Zionist megaphone…

The rape story being referred to is quite poignant in that the Israeli Jewish woman filed a claim when she realised that she got deceived into believing she was having sex with a Jew…

Comment is not free. Somebody always pays for it.

By: abram vella

abram vella — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:45:26 +0000

In reply to Pietru Pawl. does the truth hurt you. Yes if the murder was committed by an Israeli arab, that is what should be reported. An Israeli arab not a common Israeli. Facts are facts in my dictionery. Comment is free.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:29:07 +0000

In reply to Pietru Pawl. Oh dear. So "Arab culture" is a racist term then? The "Arab conquest" is racist historiography? I was a victim of racial discrimination countless times ('You Arab mongrel Mediterranean bastard' etc etc') but I took it on the chin and soldiered on. You people are such wimps.

By: Pietru Pawl

Pietru Pawl — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:44:31 +0000

@ HP Baxxter – Russia is a country, but ‘Arab’ is just a general, vague and, yes, racist term used to categorize all persons of Middle Eastern or North African descent, or Muslims. Fact is, most of the world’s Muslims don’t even look ‘Arab’, as they come from Indonesia or Malaysia.

‘Arab’ is used in the same way as US airport security screen persons for more accurate searches. I for one was a victim of such discrimination, simply because I had a Libyan Visa on my passport.

Reporters and journalists have a duty to deliver accurate news, whatever the deadline. If they can’t make it right on time, then they should just go and write gossip about celebs -at least those are always read with a pinch (or rather a pile) of salt.

[Daphne – It turns out the ‘stabbed Arab’ is Libyan, married to a Maltese, stabbed by a Maltese.]

By: S K

S K — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:32:36 +0000

I once had a conversation with a Maltese man in a senior position at work. He had spoken to somebody who was involved in the same sport as me. I asked him the guys name and I was told ‘he’s a foreigner’.

A bit shocked, I asked, well can you be more specific – a country, for example, and he looked at me and said ‘Well, you know… a foreigner’.

Jesus! What a backward rock this place is!

By: gwap

gwap — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:49:49 +0000

In reply to ciccio2010. you failed to include religion

By: gwap

gwap — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:46:00 +0000

yes – poor reporting – yes antediluvian – but this is not just The Times of Malta – all newspapers across the globe are guilty of this poor reporting, for example “a man with southeren European features was today arrested for…”
The Times is no exception.