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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (3239)	9/7/2001 11:46:12 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Aren't France and the rest of Europe much more open to Iran's Westernization than the U.S.? The U.S. has not even admitted the process exists, much less participated in it. Tom

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (3239)	9/7/2001 12:26:01 PM
From: LV	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

<<Hence I don't think that Iranians or Iraqis will ever blow up European cities when half of their inhabitants belong to Islam...>> I share your hope that ultimately man proves to be rational because the alternative is not very attractive. <<There will be an overall mingling of cultures and civilisations that may lead, as far as France is concerned, to the emergence of a predominantly African population and to rapid Islamization>> You have to take some of these models projecting geometrical progressions with a grain of salt. These systems usually are self-correcting, we just don’t know what the self-correcting mechanism will be. Of course, anything is possible, but I just don’t think that when the pressure to conform is less than ever, the world all of a sudden will somehow homogenize.