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To: LindyBill who wrote (103453)3/6/2005 2:09:20 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 793838
 
I don't think the average SA is anymore enamored with the witch doctors who run his society than we would be

I'm not at all sure about this, Bill. The average Saudi has been heavily indoctrinated by a Wahabbi educational system. Post 1979, the regime tried hard to buy off the Wahabbi radicals by giving them control of the education ministries and the vice police. Most Saudis were born after 1975, it's a very young population. Some may have thrown off the teachings of their education, but many have not, and even for those that have, remnants remain. A lot of the admiration for OBL stems from the fact that he really went and did the stuff they were all taught to do.

Think of anybody you know who went through the old-fashioned Catholic education system, pre Vatican II. Did it shape his outlook on the world, his responses, his views of super-pious Catholics, even if he himself was a lapsed Catholic? Generally speaking, the answer is: you betcha.
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