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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (8887)	9/13/2001 4:34:19 AM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 74559

Well, said... thanks DAK

To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (8887)	9/13/2001 9:14:47 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

If it makes you feel any better, I don't see all Muslims as an undifferentiated mass. I've known educated Persians since high school. Dated a boy from Persia a couple of times in high school, just going to the movies. (My main squeeze at the time was from Argentina, whose parents were Russian Jews.) Grew up in Baton Rouge, near LSU - many, many foreign engineering students at LSU. I've had numerous clients from various places in the Middle East. I used to share office space with a guy who handled all the traffic cases for a taxicab company, all of whose drivers were from the Middle East, and there was quite a bit of overflow work. I can tell the difference between a Persian and an Iraqi and an Afghani on sight much of the time, and I can tell what country they're from by their name. (Kind of like being able to differentiate Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, VietNamese and Thais. Or being able to differentiate Ethiopians from Nigerians. Or Tamils from Sinhalese. It's no great trick but not many in the US can do it, I'd bet.) Osama Bin Laden has billions - what does he do with it? They will not extricate themselves from their tribal past until they do - but they will have to change, and they don't want to change.