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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (31404)	10/9/2001 9:52:43 AM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 82486

It is cultural. P.A. Paper: How To Attack Jews The Palestinian Authority's official newspaper, Al Hayat Al Jadida, published an article two days ago about a Fatah ceremony in Gaza where participants were given a demonstration of how to ambush and kill Israeli civilians. Palestinian Media Watch "www.pmw.org", which monitors the Palestinian Authority media daily, distributed a copy of the article. A photograph accompanying the article shows two Arabs with weapons standing aside a man lying face down on the ground with his shirt half-filled with blood, with many other Arabs looking on. israelnationalnews.com./

To: Lane3 who wrote (31404)	10/9/2001 10:52:56 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Superb piece - well found, Karen. I think that does touch upon a key of most religious fundamentalism - regression to the primitive (or the womb... hmmm). Maybe the unvoiced wish is to retreat to some idealised stone age, subsistence farming with surpluses. A time where the world was much simpler to cope in, where anything complicated or painful could be dismissed by the priests as "god's will", and you couldn't conceive of anything being otherwise, and nor could/would anyone else - maybe under pain of death. - And where none of that nasty science or learning or logic could make the priests seem ill-educated, unintelligent or simply blind to reality... not that those traits would ever be seen in religious fundamentalists now, perish the thought.