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To: LV who wrote (2911)	8/23/2001 3:34:19 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 23908

LV, What I notice about your author first and foremost is that he lives in the United States. Terrorism may not be an Islamic tradition, but it's an old Palestinian tradition -- check out the fedayeen tactics from the 30's on. The Arab world is currently solidly behind the terrorist tactics; everyone agrees it's fine to blow up pizza parlors, the only question worth discussing is, does the suicide bomber commit suicide (bad) or encounter martyrdom in fighting the enemy (good)? The martyrdom answer is clearly winning, encouraged by constant PA propaganda. The only Arab voices (in the Mideast) that I've seen disagreeing are the Lebanese Daily Star and one lonely Moroccan who appeared in a talk show on Al Jazeera. The both have said that using suicide bombers is a stupid way to try to get European sympathy. The Morrocan was swamped by outraged callers, including the mother of the Jordanian soldier who murdered a bunch of Israeli schoolgirls a few years ago. She wanted to praise her son "the hero". The Morrocan was brave and dared to say out loud that killing schoolgirls was wrong, even if they were Jews. Nobody else agreed with him, neither the callers or the other guests.