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To: Bosco who wrote (581)	10/6/2001 3:52:48 PM
From: Worswick	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 644

Hello Bosco. Yes. A very long time my friend. I hope you are well and thriving. ... we seem to have gotten ourselves in a pretty pickle here with Afghanistan. It is, however, somewhat easier to get out of the lands beynd the Hindu Kush than elsewhere in the Muslim world where the fundamentalists have taken meaningful and vitrolic root. In about 1961 I lived for a year in an Indian Muslim family in a place called Nizamuddin, which is a Muslim enclave in Delhi. Quite loved it. The people were very thoughtful, considerate, tender, friendly and well-aware that theirs was one of the only purely survivor Muslim "city cultures" of old Delhi of which there is a long a cherished tradition stretching back many centuries. I was back in Nizamudin in Novermber of 2000 and walked the same streets and passed down the same alleyways I had forty years ago. The people in Nizamuddin almost radiated an angry heat which came off them like waves of hurt. The looks were full of malice and hatred. The whole populaton seemed nothing so much as sullen. It was quite amazing because I was not an American in this place, or an Englishman or a German. I was a ferengi. A foreigner from the west. It seems to me that in places like Nizamuddin that mullahs are preaching the cheapest kind diatribes fill of vitrol against the west. That is the problem. From the pulpit it should be questioned this preaching of hatred to your flock. Bosco I am full of amazement at where we are, as I have said, and how we got here. Personally, I think this is the nastiest, cheapest and meanest way for these fundamentalists to gain "control" in their communities. You don't take up the issues of overpopulation, lack of education, poverty, abuse of the poor and disenfranchised...rather you preach the kingdom of heaven and reaching this place by violent hatred-laden acts. In heaven... not here everything will be made good. There will be water, virgins, sweetmeats, young men, etc. I really can't make much distinction between Muslim, Christian, buddhist or Jewish fundamentalists... they all seem opportunists of the rankest sort. They all seem fixated on gaining power through hatred. ....unfortunately, the world community is going to be presented the bill of this kind of thinking and it is really quite scary. I left Nizamuddin baffled at how we had reached this place and how easily people were led by the persuasive voices of sanctimonious men clothed in the golden familiar tones of religious worship. So Nizamuddin like Tehran, Beruit and Gaza are turning into something like "martyr factories" for young men and young women who think death is the answer to all problems in life. They don't seem to realize they are really pawns in the hands of a new kind of politician. The politics of religion now rests in the hands of really seedy, despicable, vile and preposterous men. The selfishness of these "martyrs in the making" is something the Muslim community should take up along with their "teachers". The thing I fault particularly at this moment is the fear Muslims have of voicing an opinion. They are being led like goats to the temple of Kali. In this new war these religious men are generating I think they fail to realize their famlies and sons and daughters will be victim to smallpox, anthrax, ebola, and irradiated surroundings. Or, maybe I am simply missing something here... and the destruction of civil society is simply a new opportunity for these people. Scarry. Very best Bosco Clark