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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (89737)4/3/2003 8:10:33 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
You've confused the point of ST's post Nadine.

He argued there was nothing "inherent" in Islamism that it must be at war with the West. That it disagreed, at genuinely fundamental levels, with whatever one is calling the West these days, that's definitely true. Particularly if we are talking about the centrality of the church state separation. But some in the west, remember, are not that certain about the centrality and some of those sit, uncomfortably for my tastes, in seats of power. So it does depend, somewhat, on one's notion as to what is central to a conception of the west.

But disagreeing, at fundamental levels, which is inherent in Islamism, does not make the case that war with the west is inherent.
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