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To: LindyBill who wrote (62123)	12/18/2002 12:47:29 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

the specific spread of the Wahhabi version, which comes right along with any Saudi "Charity" money, maybe a useful way to look at it. I'd have to agree that any way you cut it, Wahabism is the enemy, or at least an enemy. I can't see that, though, as an explanation for the observation that Muslims all over the world seem to be embroiled in conflicts with their neighbors. Wahhabi influence just isn't that widespread, and many of these conflicts existed well before the recent rise in the export of Wahhabism. I don't have any meaningful answers, but it struck me today that part of the answer might be oil. Most former colonies have been forced to reach some form of accommodation with the west. The oil exporters, primarily by a quirk of fate Islamic, have not: oil has enabled them to gain wealth and influence and to engage their former masters from a position of influence. Oil money has also allowed the export of radicalism. I can't tell you where this train of thought leads, because I haven't gotten there yet. Maybe someday....