John Brown, the Weather Underground, and Al-Qaeda

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
December 4, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/667/john-brown-weather-underground-al-qaeda

Excerpt:

I have previously questioned the outrageous likening of Al-Qaeda's Khalid Sheik Mohammed to abolitionist John Brown in the pages of the New York Times. Brown opposed slavery; Mohammed believes in practicing it.

Then, I discovered that the Brown/KSM analogy has only begun to gather steam. For example, "Slavery and the Legacy of Violence in our Times" will be the subject of a 4 day symposium beginning on December 4th at North Elba, Lake Placid. It is John Brown's 150th Commemoration. Here's how the Symposium is described:

"Dubbed one of the most controversial figures in American history, John Brown, 150 years after his death, remains a stimulant to discussion on the subject of slavery and the use of violence to achieve political and social change. Who was John Brown? To some, he was a terrorist, to others a martyr and the first to stand against the violence of slavery. To many, his words and actions set our nation on the path to Civil War which reunified the nation with federal laws that abolished slavery.

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