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To: haqihana who wrote (182302)9/16/2001 12:11:28 AM
From: E  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Is seems as though you are claiming to be able to read their minds and determine that battling the infidel, the echt religious motivation, is not their true motivation, apparently. I can't do that, so can't argue. But this article does address some of what you write:

slate.msn.com

Here is its last paragraph:

"But Bin Laden and his followers are alarming because they don't want anything from us. They don't want our sympathy. They want no material thing we can offer them. They don't want to participate in the community of nations. (They don't really believe in the nation-state.) They are motivated by religion, not politics. They answer to no one but their god, so they certainly won't answer to us."



To: haqihana who wrote (182302)9/16/2001 2:13:21 AM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
Haq, this sounds like "My extremists (Falwell, Robertson, Buchanan) are religious, but yours (Mullah XYZ) is not."

The extremist Mullahs have the agenda of keeping their people under their control, and use their well practiced, and rehearsed, piety as a smokescreen of legitimacy.
This sounds like ANY religion when it gets secular power. Puritans here and in England. The Papacy in Italy.