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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (5324)	10/15/2001 6:54:03 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I personally think it was an attack on the world and progress [another version of Ted Kaczynski and opposition to the process of globalisation, technology and subsuming of localized cultures into a global culture There's this thread of thought lurking in my brain too. The big dangers to radical Islam are globalization / democracy. Perhaps the radical terrorists believe they can wall off their societies in order to survive, but do they really believe that their own perversion of Islam can survive and flourish merely by forcing the rest of the world out of their own lands? Do they really feel this way? Or is part of their plan for long term survival of their radical fundamentalist ways involve reducing those that might oppose them - the developed, multicultural, religious/secular, economically powerful world - into worlds that look more like theirs? - economically weak(er) - hungry population - civil unrest etc. I reserve the right to feel that they embarked on a crusade which to them is much much bigger than the 9-11 attack. I can think of things they could do that would continue to weaken our societal fabric. They are not pretty, pleasant things to think about.

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