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To: Neeka who wrote (4936)	10/14/2001 5:27:22 PM
From: Condor	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Hi M, I hope you'll reflect on that feeling a bit. The problem (I'd suggest) lies not in the "founding documents" known as the Bible or the Koran but in the interpretation and fervour with which some choose to read into it. Fundamentalist interpretation precipitates the inciteful conduct and reactions. Fallwells (fundamentalist) interpretation as displayed recently and the fact that he has a following of sorts suggests that the extreme/ists exists in America too. I wonder sometimes whether an evolution of the American fundamentalist christian to the outer limits of extremism would place them squarely in the playing field of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. IMO the problem is not the "documents" but the fanaticism. In the case of east vs. west, the added coagulents of poverty, regimes and historical bias propels or accelerates them along the path of fundamentalism. This I believe is very much where Andrew Sullivan was going in his essay "This Is a Religious War" Message 16498295 OT and BTW..got a couple of "birds" the other day and yesterday an "alces alces". Regards C

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