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To: chomolungma who wrote (67376)	1/23/2003 2:21:32 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 70976

You could raise the standard of material consumption in Afghanistan up to that of Saudi Arabia, and you'd still have a society where 19 young men, from the middle class, with college educations, become suicide bombers. As I see it, Muslims want the material prosperity of the West, but they reject the rest of Western culture. The problem is, it's a package deal. It is Western culture that creates the conditions for material prosperity. Muslims can't achieve prosperity without freeing their women, adopting a less medieval political system, instituting freedom of expression, and so on. Could you post the article?