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Re: Saudi Arabia is starting to "Get it"
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Wed, 21 May 2003 16:41:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=26165

This is very encouraging.

John,
will you cite any rag which supports your [narrow] point of view?

Will you characterize any source with which you disagree as a "rag"?

Have you read
the other items on that site? Are they "very encouraging" too?

Tangental.

Perhaps the US and Israel *aren't* the root of all
evil after all....


What would you say is the "root of all evil"? Greed? Power? Religious
extremism? Envy?

The point is that it *isn't* the US and Israel for Muslims.  I would say that
the root of Islamic terrorism (and the evil in this war on terrorism) is the
Wahabis' extreme interpretation of Islam.

JOHN



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  Re: Saudi Arabia is starting to "Get it"
 
(...) I think that first sentence is an overstatement. Israel does not have clean hands, nor does the U.S. We are not as bad as some, but we are hardly innocent any longer. In fact, we (the U.S.) are brazenly guilty of atrocities. The U.S. operates (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Saudi Arabia is starting to "Get it"
 
(...) You assume I disagree? (...) I'll take that as a "no". I must confess to liking this: (URL) (...) Do you have any evidance which supports that? WW2 was largly a christian effort; the result was 60 million dead. Extreme interpretations of Islam (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Saudi Arabia is starting to "Get it"
 
(...) John, will you cite any rag which supports your [narrow] point of view? Have you read the other items on that site? Are they "very encouraging" too? (...) What would you say is the "root of all evil"? Greed? Power? Religious extremism? Envy? (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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