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To: skinowski who wrote (91131)	4/8/2003 11:59:27 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Thanks for an interesting article. Yes there is some of that too. I found this part interesting: One of the most influential Islamist philosophers, Sayyid Qutb (pronounced KUH-tahb), who was executed by Nasser in 1966, studied in the West and then, like many other Islamic radicals, rebelled against modernity and secularism (his brother taught Osama bin Laden). The Ayatollah Khomeini, who lived in Paris before the 1979 Iranian revolution, combined phrases of Fanon and Sartre with his totalitarian Islamicism. Which flies in the face of the idea that Islamists do not know zip about the west and its system. BTW, not all of them were as extreme as Qutb or Khomeini. Most wanted something in between. ST