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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (120987)	12/6/2003 12:32:40 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) of 281500

If it emanates from Saudi-funded mosques and madrassas whose mission is to convert SE Asia to Wahabbi Islam, they can. If it did, they could. It doesn’t. You might argue that Saudi-funded mosques and madrassas have provided some of the rhetoric and some of the technical training. Politicized Islam in Southeast Asia does not emanate from these institutions, though, but from local and regional conflicts that were in place, in many cases on a large and bloody scale, well before these institutions arrived on the scene. Many Western observers seem to believe that because they didn’t notice the evolution of politicized Islam in SEA until after they became aware of Islamic movements in the Middle East, it did not exist until the spread of Islamism from the Middle East created it. This is simply not the case. This is not to say that there is no contact or no mutual influence or assistance. There is plenty of both. It is not a case of an ideology spreading from a central point, though, More a case of lines that were once running a parallel course beginning to intertwine and support each other.

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