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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian
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To: one_less who wrote (8357)7/11/2000 7:59:33 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 9127
 
Local context:

There is an active Muslim secessionist movement in the Philippines; many of their complaints are legitimate and many of their goals are admirable; their methods are consistently deplorable. Fanaticism is very much in evidence. The conflict is at a very hot point recently, and has spilled over to Manila and other areas near Subic. The secessionists are trained and financed by the bin Laden group, and an unguarded US warship would unquestionably be a target of opportunity to that group. It may not be Politically Correct to say so, but there is no doubt that the primary security threat to a US warship in Subic is Muslim fanaticism, and that the threat is significant enough to warrant greater security measures than were taken.

The communist NPA is conceivably a threat, but a suicide bombing is not their style at all; if they were going to do something it would be a shooting or grenade attack on individual sailors.

I am quite aware that the bin Laden group is no more representative of Muslims in general than the Irish loonies are of Christians in general, but they are terrorists, they are Muslim fanatics, they do stage bombings, they have a local presence, and they are a threat. I see no reason not to call a spade a spade. If the religious are offended, they should perhaps consider that the offense lies in the barbaric methods that religion is twisted to justify, not in the discussion of those methods.
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