Stardate 20021004.1213

(On Screen): As my site has grown in popularity and word of it has spread, when I write articles which are particularly controversial they tend to get linked from amazing places. But this easily moves the bar to an entirely new level. Someone from the US posted a link to my recent unreasonably long article about who our enemy truly is to a discussion system called "Taliban Online".

Posters there often include an indication of their home nations, and the longest response to my article (as I write this) is from India. The writer seems to be much less well informed about us than he accuses me of being about them. For instance, he tosses off this interesting factoid:

is the writer wants to know let me tell you in US which boasts of its IT reolution, the clear fact is that this was done by Immigrants from other countries. Even today the IT industry is 60-70% South Asians from India and Pakistan, and these were the ones that made it go.

Having spent 25 years in that industry, I can tell you that this is quite the surprise to me. I've worked with a lot of people from that part of the world (and liked and respected them all) but they never remotely approached that large a proportion. (And most of them were Hindu, not Muslim. Not that I cared one way or the other.)

It would seem that the fundamental concept of "Afrocentrism" either has been borrowed or else spontaneously springs up when needed: The reason "they" are more successful than "we" are is because "they" actually stole it from "us".

The rest of the discussion board is, well, odd too; about what you'd expect, really.

There is, perhaps, a certain irony in the entire thing. The server is located in Thailand. The material found in this discussion board would have led to a crackdown if the server had been located in one of the nations where Sharia is enforced. (For one thing, the article linking to mine would have been suppressed.)