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To: uu who wrote (6963)	10/23/2001 3:37:44 AM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Addi, Islam is a religion. Christianity is a religion. Hinduism is a religion. There is one factor underlying the understanding of any religion. That factor is LEARNING. Learning requires literacy. Literacy requires an economic and social infrastucture that allows practical and creative thought. There is a learning process involved in the PROPER understanding of any religion. Unfortunately, there are areas of the world where illiteracy and middle-ages type extremism against progress unite to create an atmosphere of radical resistance to current forms of "social ascendancy". The fact is that religions are something to actually study and learn. When social shortcomings allow extremists to claim relgious authority to sway uneducated masses, discrepencies between expectations of the "civilized" and "uncivilized" world are brought to bear. The real answer to the current situation is simple.......education. Any religion can be bent toward evil within an uneducated population. Don't get caught up in choosing one religion as "evil" and another as "good". To educate you need to break the dissenting youth away from disfunctioning social and familial ideological structures. Not an easy task in the overt sense. You can't tell people you're going to bring their children into a thought process that is opposed to their own. What CAN be done however, is to fund programs where disadvantaged parents around the world will see it as beneficial to have at least some of their children go to school to at least become literate. A program that pays for childrens' meals at school would be an incentive for disadvantaged parents in Kenya, Afghanistan or wherever to have children attend school to help with the burden of feeding them. We did it in this country 40 or 50 yrs ago. It worked at the time. Bottom line is...in an increasingly global social environment it would pay to cause less illiteracy and more critical thinking. Spend 300 billion on antiterrorism or 100 billion on free school meals? ummmmm as an investor/trader...the choice is clear. Doug R

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