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To: zonder who wrote (55404)	10/29/2002 1:07:16 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This movement seems to feed on the people's discontent with the economic and political mess they live in. Another factor fueling the shift towards religious fundamentalism appears to be a reaction to a perceived oppression from certain countries of the West - the US called "the devil", etc... Those are two factors. A third is the demographic explosion that has already blown out the political and economic system, and is continuing; a fourth is that dissent is only permitted in the mosque, where it is easy prey for the Islamists; a fifth is that the Arabs don't feel like their governments are legitimately 'theirs', so they take no responsibility for them. The Israeli analyst Ehud Ya'ari remarked, "The Arabs feel that they are just renting their governments. And no one, in the history of the world, has ever washed a rented car."