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To: Enigma who wrote (76141)	9/13/2001 5:12:19 AM
From: paul ross	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116815

This whole thing is about harems. Harems? Allow me to explain. What would cause a man to be willing to die in a fiery crash? And presumably there were over 30 of them in the 4 planes that were hi-jacked. Is it the desire to do that ultimate good deed and to be with Allah or is there another motivation.Perhaps its something far more pervasive and powerful: the desire to escape a life so dreadful that one would be willing to sacrifice everything for that one shining moment. A key to understanding this was presented in a recent report (60 Minutes or 48 Hours) about a renegade satellite tv station located in the Saudi peninsula. They broadcast western news and views in the Arabic language to the Arab countries.They do such things as discuss the role of women in the west vs. the Arab world and have been the scourge of the Arab Govts. Why, the stations producer was asked. His response was that the western culture was a great threat to the Arab world. He said that the Arab culture had swept so much under the carpet that the concept of a true Democracy and freedom of speech threatened to bring all of this out.It threatened the very foundations of their culture. There is no love lost amongst the Arab nations themselves. Do you think that they really give 2 hoots about those few dislocated souls in the Sinai desert, or that Ronald Reagan shot down a Libyan jet or that Bush Sr. took it to Saddam? Those who do forget about the 10 yr. Iran-Iraq war, the Arab's lukewarm opposion to Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, and the current Afghan civil war. Centuries of a suppressive, patriarchal culture which subjugates its women, metes out punishment for wrong doing which is often quick and harsh with very little emphasis on justice, and doesn't allow a scintilla of individual expression has bread a hatred and a fear which is exhibited not only in their relations with each other but in their all consuming hatred of the West. Psychology has a name for it- transference, with a dose of the Stockholm Syndrome. A society so suppressed and abused that it is willing to band together with its tormentors against those who would reveal the truth about itself. Western society is not pure as the driven snow, far from it. But it is not the materialism and capitalistic greed that the Arab nations fear, but the open and Democratic society that would disrupt the power structure of their society and would bring to light the huge injustices that it has imposed on its people for centuries. The disintegrating role of the Arab women is perhaps the most distressing to the Arab world. Once an Arab women learns of a woman's role in Western society she is gone forever, never to be again totally subservient to the controlling male in her life. And in the higher echelons in the palaces of royalty, never to play an insignificant role in a prince's stable of women. There were stories flying about at one time that bin Laden developed his great anti-west fervor after one of his Saudi princesses decided on a more Western oriented life, rejecting bin Laden and the strong anti-women society. And it was this last rejection that cemented him in his revolutionary ways. What was once merely a cultural war, is now a real war, where people have and will die. The choices of the Arab world are either to join the 21st century or to risk getting bombed back into the 10th. America and her supporters have choices, too, to be with the Chamberlains or with the Churchills...And for those of us with the courage for the fight its still far too early to light a victory cigar.