Re: ANYT THOUGHTS ON AMERICAN PBS SERIES "THE PEOPLES CENTURY" ?

I saw it too.  My impression was how stupid the comparison was:
comparing religious fanatics in the US (who support the US
oppression of people in the Middle East), with the Islamic
anti-imperialist movement -- a movement with some serious
problems of course.

elson

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard N Hutchinson <rhutchin@U.Arizona.EDU>
To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: ANYT THOUGHTS ON AMERICAN PBS SERIES "THE PEOPLES
CENTURY" ?


>
> I caught part of an episode the other night on religious
fundamentalism,
> and was happily surprised to find that Christian Fundamentalism
in the
> U.S. was equated with Islamic Fundamentalism in Iran.  There
was not much
> text making this explicit, but the use of editing
juxtopositions made the
> point unmistakable.
>
> R. Hutchinson
>
>
>