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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (98684)	5/20/2003 9:28:42 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Changing the subject again, are you? The quote you took from my post was not about Lewis but about your own observation, the one in which you explicitly linked your term, "the Arab world" to the observations about the links with the Nazis. The reference in your post is not to the Baath party but to some more general entity called, again, "the Arab world." That's the leap you make, repeatedly. As for the argument about "Arab mindsets", I simply don't buy it. Sorry. It appears to upset you that I don't. For me, it's a reasonably standard thing that happens, which is to demonize the other rather than accept the factual variations that are an integral part of human life. I don't doubt there is evidence that some Arabs in some situations evidence the various attributes you wish to give them; that simply doesn't get you to the stuff you throw into the "Arab mind." And, just to make this point a different way, you invoke, in the last paragraph, this same term, "the Arab world" and tie it to repugnant terms. That's certainly evidence it happened; hardly evidence that it belongs in something called "the Arab world," or even worse that every Arab evidences it.