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To: Bilow who wrote (29361)	5/13/2002 1:49:37 AM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Over the long term, the Islamic fundamentalists are not a threat to this country. What's long term? Will lack of freedom of movement through the world be in US interests? Will lack of economic development throughout a third of the world be in US interests? Is an Islamist nation holding WMDs in US interests? Is the continued financing by Saudis of islamist institutions in N america and Europe in US interests? Is the conjoining of religious and political institutions in many countries in US interests? Is the continued, unremitting islamist encouragement to kill US men, women and children in US interests? Is the continued unremitting islamist attack on democracy every where in US interests? The extreme eco freaks are certainly ethically nasty people in a manner similar to the islamists and potentially could be a greater threat to everyone than the islamists, but right now it's the islamist ideological freaks who're causing grief to the US and everyone else. What we are looking at right now is a preliminary skirmish between the islamist totalitarians and the west. What do you think is the long term effect these folk will have on western institutions as they pick away at the foundations of modernity? Already governments of western Europe are in disarray because of their unfocussed, wimpy response to islamist refusal of European culture inside Europe. Just because they are backward looking with an apparently impossible program doesn't mean they can't do incalculable harm.