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To: James Strauss who wrote (41850)	12/2/2001 10:31:48 PM
From: BubbaFred	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

The article would be more effective and may be of best service if it were directed to the Muslims themselves, particularly those with wealth and power. Most Muslims presently live under tyrannical and/or suppressive governments and in societies where the leaders effectively use religion for social control. There is no wealth distribution within the society, and the wealthy class prefers to join the Western society by investing their wealth abroad. The poor majority are considered to exist merely to support the 5 to 10% wealthy class, as servants and source of cheap labor. There is yet a benevolent Muslim leader who has been cleansed of greed and lust of power who possess deep concerns for uplifting the well being of the Muslims in their own countries. << Political exploitation of Islam continued, but the enemy became simply Muslim peoples themselves. This was exemplified in the financing (with petrodollars) of some 7,500 religious schools in Pakistan, India and the Arab world, schools that taught only isolationism, backwardness and hostility. Arab and other Muslim tyrannies sought, by leaving the educational and cultural fields to Islamism, to acquire legitimacy at the cheapest and most opportunistic price: by keeping the masses ignorant and preventing them from improving their lot, politically and economically. Better to direct their hopes toward the hereafter. >>

To: James Strauss who wrote (41850)	12/2/2001 10:45:23 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

The author of this piece misses one important point in connection with the USSR. The Soviets from the point they put their noses in countries they wanted under their control would exterminate Muslims or peoples of other religions in the process. Religion was always to be eliminated under Communist rule, as it is a dangerously independent form of thinking. This was no less true in Afghanistan, particularly after the Soviet orchestrated coup d'etat in 1978. I would be surprised if a good part of the moudjahidin hatred of the Communists was not due to this, rather than just American manipulation.