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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2936)	10/6/2001 2:07:58 PM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

". . .But the US has much more to offer than anything Bin Laden can provide. We can provide economic aid, and long overdue integration into the global economy, and Bin Laden and other extremists can only promise struggle, suffering, and violence." Please be mindful of your Anglocentric perspective. What we may consider "gifts" are viewed as "corruptive" influences by fundamentalist Muslims. Have you watched any music videos lately? Looking at them from a Muslim perspective, the way we present women in them is nothing less than shameful (and I'm not very happy myself). So if economic aid and global integration mean importing this and a number of other corruptive Western influences which threaten their deeply held religious beliefs, I can imagine that they'd prefer to struggle against, rather than surrender to the invasion of our culture, at whatever expense. Our values, no matter how great we believe them to be, are not shared by the whole world. p.s. I recently heard that "Bay Watch" is the most widely viewed American production worldwide. Though it doesn't reflect the depth or variety of our culture, imagine the portrait it paints of our cultural values . . .scares even me.