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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SARMAN who wrote (4216)	5/12/2002 12:03:56 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 32591

Religion should be separate from the Government then watch the dictatorship collapse. There are secular as well as religious Arab governments, and the secular ones are every bit as dictatorial as the religious ones. You could point at Arab familial and tribal structures and speculate why no Arab country has successfully built institutions of state that are separate from their officeholders and will endure. What's really needed is not just a government that calls itself secular, it's an entire Reformation that separates mosque and state. This has never happened in the Arab world. Hate not only exists in the Arab world but also exists in North America, Europe, Asia and all over the world. But if someone does not break the cycle or we will have a world full of hate and resentment to each other Does the rest of the world broadcast anything to match this? The Arab world seems to need the hate, to be in a veritable orgy of hate: On my way to Jakarta I stopped in Dubai, where I watched the Arab News Network at 2 a.m. ANN broadcasts from Europe, outside the control of any Arab government, but is seen all over the Middle East. It was running what I'd call the "greatest hits" from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: nonstop film of Israelis hitting, beating, dragging, clubbing and shooting Palestinians. I would like to say the footage was out of context, but there was no context. There were no words. It was just pictures and martial music designed to inflame passions. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/opinion/12FRIE.html I submit it's not the West that needs to look in the mirror right now.

To: SARMAN who wrote (4216)	5/12/2002 12:37:30 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 32591

Dear Abdul you are right in your statement below, but have you done anything to further your ideas outlined in your post have you written to US President, Secretary of State to other legislators in the US or in the Arab States etc. That the most urgent need in the ME is the political system in the Middle East should be revamped or in other words democracy ? Did you demand that Religion should be separate from the Government and religion should not be an ideology I am all with you on those points, but ............ have you done anything about that? as it is presented now Islam is an ideology the same way communism is defining a way of life by force and obedience more so the Wahhabi doctrine promoted by Saudi Arabia and the Clan of Saud