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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (117272)	10/20/2003 2:32:50 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Saladin had the power, at that point, to push the Crusaders entirely out of the Holy Land. Instead, he made a compromise peace, leaving them with their coastal cities. That's extremely debatable. It would have cost very high to try to push the Crusaders out of Acre. You could more reasonably say that Saladin decided to consolidate his gains. His reference to Saladin is one of several he gives, from early Muslim history, of strategic retreats, generous peace treaties, compromises, and refusing battle. No. NOT strategic retreats, TACTICAL retreats, on the road to eventual Allah-promised victory of the ummah. Early Muslim history has NO history of STRATEGIC retreats. Every word Mahathir said underscores the premise. Why do you persist in misreading him? Are you so ignorant of his thinking? The treaty of Hudibaiyah, which Mahathir cited, was a tactical treaty only - Mohammed, being in a position of weakness, made a ten-year treaty with the Qureish on terms of equality (that's why Muslims always say that the treaty wasn't "fair"). Before the term was out, Mohammed was in a stronger position, so he broke the treaty and destroyed the Qureish. Helluva example of a "compromise peace" - make peace now, and I'll destroy you in eight years! Mahathir's tactics are better than Al Qaeda's. But his strategy is no better - he just wants to use the tools of the West to preserve the same brain-damaged Islamist ideas. It won't work. If you want to modernise, you must take the ideas with the computers - human rights, property rights, free flow of information, freedom of ideas, equality, separation of church and state. As long as Mahathir regards these ideas as a vile Jewish conspiracy to oppress Muslims, the world's only 1.3 billion-strong victims' club, the modernization won't take.