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To: JohnM who wrote (4030)	10/10/2001 11:19:15 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Well, I think it does bear on Said's points. If the man has a bias, an agenda, then put it on the table. He says Huntingdon was biased. Maybe so. I say Said is biased, too. Said claims that bin Laden's ideas are fringe ideas ("why not instead see parallels, admittedly less spectacular in their destructiveness, for Osama bin Laden and his followers in cults like the Branch Davidians or the disciples of the Rev. Jim Jones at Guyana or the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo?") but I think that's a deliberate mis-statement. Bin Laden's ideas are far closer to the Islamic mainstream that Said admits, and bin Laden is far more popular than David Koresh ever was. Said says America's combatants against bin Laden are "self-appointed" - I say that's BS.