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To: Srexley who wrote (392110)	4/14/2003 5:52:39 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

>>"the person to whom I had responded was making statements that indicated he might well be lumping Arabs and Arab countries together" Post the statement that lead you to believe that. I read back and saw NOTHING that suggested this other than your opening statement.<< Srexley - I appreciate your civility. Here's what I was responding to: "This hit on Saddam was a statement to the entire Arab Street. GET YOUR FANATICS UNDER CONTROL. It was also a statement to the rest of the world. We are not a bunch of P***** and we won't tolerate this jihad spreading Like it or not Saddam was an integral part of the jihad movement." I do see that this post, though using the phrase "the entire Arab Street", does specifically mention fanatics as if they are only a subset of the Arab population. However, saying that Saddam was an integral part of the jihad movement indicates, to me, a lack of appreciation for the differences between a secularist dictator whose only goal was to maintain his own power and the Islamic fundamentalist fanatics who want to create a pan-Arabic Islamic state and to eventually destroy all "infidels". A misinterpretation on my part? Perhaps so, but I don't think I was that far off the mark. After all, one of the "infidels" the jihad seeks to destroy was Hussein himself. Even though he used the word "jihad" when it suited him to do so, I don't see how one could reasonably state that he was an integral part of that movement. - Allen