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To: kumar who wrote (1105)	12/27/2002 4:29:37 PM
From: Rollcast...	Respond to of 15987

"My point was : a few bad guys dont mean they are all bad." Not unreasonable. ;)

To: kumar who wrote (1105)	12/28/2002 4:14:48 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 15987

My point was : a few bad guys dont mean they are all bad. Kumar... I don't know how many times I've stated exactly that... But people who are ignorant of foriegn cultures, or merely afraid for their lives from some unknown "enemy" don't take the time to weed out the wheat from the chaff... They throw the baby out with the bathwater and cease acting in a rational manner... We're ALL like this at various times in our life. Muslims who have never been to the West have the same distorted view... It's not about Islam.. It's about Islamic Fascism.. The attempted rise of a reactionary theocratic totalitarian system as an answer to the economic and social problems of the muslim world. And if those non-militant muslims don't take a hard stand against it, they will soon find themselves overwhelmed by it and forced to either comform, or flee.. Because there are many who recognize the power they can achieve by being in on this movement at the beginning.. Unless, that is, they suddenly find themselves, or their mentors, targeted and killed by US and Western forces... Only then, after seeing the deaths of those whose patronage and mentoring they have sought, does their "cost/benefit" analysis realize that being a militant has little future.. Hawk