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To: willcousa who wrote (151)	10/30/2001 7:21:54 PM
From: Dale Knipschield	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 786

Here's an interesting discourse a friend sent to me.............I don't have the foggiest idea who V.S. Naipaul is, but the answer is worth of reading over a couple of times. V. S. Naipaul - In answer to the question: What do you think were the causes of Sept. 11? "It had no cause. Religious hate, religious motivation, was the primary thing. I don't think it was because of American foreign policy. There is a passage in one of Conrad's short stories of the East Indies where the savage finds himself with his hands bare in the world, and he lets out a howl of anger. I think that, in its essence, is what is happening. The world is getting more and more out of reach of simple people who have only religion. And the more they depend on religion, which of course solves nothing, the more the world gets out of reach. The oil money of the 70's gave the illusion that power had come to the Islamic world. It was as though up there was a divine supermarket, and at last it had become open to people in the Muslim world. They didn't understand that the goods that gave them power, in the end, were made by another civilization. That was intolerable to accept, and it remains intolerable." Regards, Knip