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Re: Saudi Arabia is starting to "Get it"
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 21 May 2003 17:13:31 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> > > http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=26165
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> > > This is very encouraging.
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> > John,
> > will you cite any rag which supports your [narrow] point of view?
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> Will you characterize any source with which you disagree as a "rag"?
You assume I disagree?
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> > Have you read
> > the other items on that site? Are they "very encouraging" too?
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> Tangental.
I'll take that as a "no". I must confess to liking this:
http://www.arabnews.com/Cartoon.asp?ArY=03&ArM=05&ArD=21
http://www.arabnews.com/Cartoon.asp?ArY=03&ArM=05&ArD=13
http://www.arabnews.com/Cartoon.asp?ArY=03&ArM=04&ArD=28
http://www.arabnews.com/Cartoon.asp?ArY=03&ArM=04&ArD=26
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> > > Perhaps the US and Israel *aren't* the root of all
> > > evil after all....
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> > What would you say is the "root of all evil"? Greed? Power? Religious
> > extremism? Envy?
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> 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.
Do you have any evidance which supports that? WW2 was largly a christian
effort; the result was 60 million dead.
Extreme interpretations of Islam are a problem. Likewise for other religions.
Your country has a record of supporting such groups; don't forget that!
Getting back to your root of evil/terrorism; why is it that Islamic radicalism
is such a modern problem? Is it because:
1) we [the west] gave many of the current Islamic nations such a hard time in
the last century?
or
2) Muslims are just a bunch of "hot-heads" looking for a fight?
The only way to win the "war on terror" is to fight the cause; not the
symptom. I'm not convinced the conquest of Iraq did either...
Scott A
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| (...) Will you characterize any source with which you disagree as a "rag"? (...) Tangental. (...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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