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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: frankw1900 who wrote (89292)4/2/2003 7:20:58 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Calm down. I stand by my original post. You along with many others on this thread, seem to be stuck in the early revolutionary Iran rhetoric. I suggest you start by looking before and after that time span to get a clearer picture.

> Khomeini, bin Laden, the mullahs of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan say they are at militant war

You may have not notices, but Khomeini died long ago. Pakistan is and has been for the longest time a most pro-US regime. Ditto for Saudi. So before you claim that fundamentalist Islam is not a backlash against too much US influence in those countries, you need to compare US influence vs. the popularity of Islamism in the Muslim world.

> If you mean by 'popular"

No I don't. So at this point I have to ignore the rest of your post. I thought I was clear. Islam is a complete belief system that they have and you don't. If they were to adopt liberalism, parliamentarism, feminism, whatever-else-ism, we (the 8000 ton gorilla of the world) would be able to find a way to manipulate the those movements and turn it our way. But we can't do that with fundamentalist Islam can we? It is something that is indigenous to them. We can't go bragging telling them what a Muslim should or should not do, can we? (well we can try <g>).

Sun Tzu
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