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To: Ish who wrote (10359)	12/24/2001 6:25:35 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

What a piece of garbage.>> Unreal, ah? LOL of the day...but helps to "understand" Bin Laden's of the World, truly frightening garbage

To: Ish who wrote (10359)	12/24/2001 6:30:49 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

My understanding is that English (sanitized) version of garbage, is nothing like Arabic version of the vitriol...I think old Communist anti-West Propaganda, like Stalin, Mao, or North Korean garbage is simply child's play in comparison

To: Ish who wrote (10359)	12/25/2001 12:49:32 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

The other form of true believers are those anarchists and radical leftists found in the streets protesting every time the leaders of Western nations gather.Individualists, people taught to think for themselves, do not join mass movements. "Faith in a holy cause," said Hoffer, "is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves. The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause." What is roiling the Middle East is the "jihad", the holy war. It is not just a war on Israel. It is an Islamic war on all other religions, but primarily its progenitors, Judaism and Christianity. Islam is about 1,500 years old, the last of the world's mass religions to come along, having cherry-picked its precepts from both earlier religions. Islam is a religion created for desert tribes that it finds itself at a crossroads in the modern world it fears will undermine its strictures. Theseinclude Islam's rules regarding the relationship between men and women, the prohibition on charging interest for the use of money, prohibitions on alcohol and certain foods, and its insistence that Mohammed was the last, true prophet. It does not merely recommend prayer; it requires it five times daily. Islam is a religion at war with the present and the future. Its golden age was when it was most tolerant. It has now lapsed into its own Dark Ages. "All true believers of our time," wrote Hoffer, "declaimed volubly on the decadence of the Western democracies. The burden of their talk is that those in the democracies are too soft, too pleasure loving and too selfish to die for a nation, a God, or a holy cause. This lack of readiness to die, we are told, is indicative of an inner rot-a moral and biological decay." Hoffer, who wrote his book shortly after the defeat of Germany's Nazism, Italy's Fascism, and Japanese nationalism and at a time when Soviet Communism, led by Stalin, was seeking to impose itself on the world, warned "It always fares ill with the present when a genuine mass movement is on the march." This is no less true today as Communism works to reassert itself and as Islamic fundamentalism threatens world peace. anxietycenter.com