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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: E who wrote (99622)3/27/2005 12:30:16 PM
From: E  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
"...There is one point about the Islamofascist ideological compound that is left out . . . and it is a point of genuine conflict between the West and those guys – the role and status of women in society. The Islamists are genuinely hysterical at the loss of masculine control in six or seven critical areas of life that they see implied by the Western social format. Some form or degree of it is implicit in all the religious fundamentalisms.

And . . . the evolving Salafist variant of Islamist fundamentalism seems to have settled on a rejection of democracy in favor of rule by the religiously most learned and observant. That is to say, that Scheuer, whom you quote, [is going too far] in reducing antagonism between Islamists and the West to resolvable political issues, like Israel, etc.,..."

[Edit: to be clear, I didn't write that. Mr. E wrote it to GS.]
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