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To: Little Joe who wrote (78624)	10/18/2001 10:59:22 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116752

That poll was reported on by CNN and was done by an Arabic Professor of Islamic studies in the US. It stated that the 100% of the women and 85% of the Saudi men supported bin Laden. The Saudis' State religion and a good number of the Peninsula Arabs are of the fundamentalist Wahabi sect of which most of Arabs in the US are derived. This is not a moderate sect. It is a minority in the middle east but a majority in the US. When you state that most Arabs in the US are not moderates that may be accurate. If you differentiate Islamics from the Arabs then the Islamics themselves are not necessarily immoderate. East African swahili and Indians/Pakistani are not terribly polarized against the west. They are not that friendly either but they are mostly businessmen and not given to letting politics interfere. Punjabis in Pakistan are for the most part not severe. But the Islamic fundamental movement is a strong in Paksitan as anywhere. Egypt is ruled by the military and so is Pakistan. Any democracy would weaken through socialistic economic mismanagement and/or fall prey to co-opting and terrorism of extremist Muslims. So we are better off with benign dictators like Mussaref and Mubarak than democracies! When will democracy be ok in Muslim countries? Tough to say. Not real soon. Bomb throwers of the religion of peace threaten this for now. Some people support bin Laden because they do not see proof of his guilt. They think the CIA are guessing. I don't believe the CIA use guesswork to make those kind of assertions. Of course we know the CIA does not use wiretapping, code breaking, informers or spies. They just gaze at maps, listen to CNN and play neutron dice games. It behooves them to sound less sure than they are. EC<:-}