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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (128408)	10/10/2001 1:29:42 AM
From: active22	Respond to of 436258

You are on track Haim again, Thank You...Lets hope America and the Western world, Put down the hash pipe Afghanistan got us addicted to and find the inner strength to WAKE UP!!! People in Iran, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Pakistan, etc Hate us and are sick evil basturds. They use religion real well to promise idiots great rewards for self sacrifice. Let's see if we can get some decadent self obsessed, luxury seeking babies to do the same. It's do or die folks.

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (128408)	10/10/2001 2:13:39 PM
From: RocketMan	Respond to of 436258

Like Communism and Nazism, Islamism is a brutal, coercive utopian movement – a politicized and virulent interpretation and implementation of Islam -- bent on nothing less than total world domination. Yes, I agree. However, although radical Islam can be equated with Nazism or Communism by its brutality, and in its effects on world peace and individual freedom, I don't consider it an ideology but rather a cultural mindset. Ideologies, as you say, are coercive, which implies that they need active reinforcement, which is best done by a repressive regime within political boundaries. But a cultural mindset is ultimately more dangerous than an ideology, because it transcends national boundaries and its adherents can exist across and within all nations. That is what allows a hijacker or a suicide bomber to penetrate and live within a different society while holding to their twisted cultural values. This is consistent with Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations" which, when published in 1993, offended a lot of political scholars by emphasizing the primacy of cultural over political forces. One of his main conclusions was that the next world struggle would not be primarily between nations, but between cultures -- and in particular between Western culture and Islam. His predictions are looking pretty good right now.