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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (4028)10/10/2001 11:01:04 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
You disagree with Said as to whether bin Laden et al is a "totalitarian political movement" or a "few crazed fanatics." Fine. But I hardly see any justification in Said's text to argue that he is trying to hide this from us. He simply sees it differently.

No; the threat to many Arab governments from Islamicist organizations -- Al Quaeda, Islamic Jihad (which just merged with Al Quaeda), Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah -- is too serious and widespread for this pooh-poohing to be anything but blindness or wilful misdirection. And I don't think Edward Said is blind.
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