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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (25559)4/16/2002 11:26:16 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Respond to of 281500
 
Well, Bilow will be grinning ear to ear over this one...

Behind the Rage

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

KHARTOUM, Sudan — It's a measure of the rage spreading across the Middle East that even in this dusty capital, almost at the edge of the world, several hundred thousand people have marched through the streets denouncing Israel and America — and in some cases cheering Osama bin Laden.

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nytimes.com

In the mid-1980's I covered South African business leaders for a time, and anguished whites there constantly pointed out the double standard of the scrutiny and moral expectations on them. They had a point, but the world did not stop to listen and in the end it didn't matter that there were many far worse sinners.

I'm curious just how much the civil rights movement had to do with it, not that it makes any difference.



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (25559)4/16/2002 11:26:46 AM
From: GST  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
"Islamic radicals" -- "Jewish radicals" I think most of us are sick of radicals, period.