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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45424)	1/3/2004 12:26:01 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Finally the editor found the article and published the following in Pakistan.. Defeatism has become prevalent in the Islamic World and self-inflicted pain has become pleasure. Hostility for the US is a disease inflicting most Muslims. He, who wakes up to a breakfast of Kellogg’s frosted wheat, wears Gap jeans, works on a Cisco-Intel-Microsoft-based technology to surf the Internet whilst sipping Starbucks coffee and gulps down a double Mac for lunch, also lashes out at the American way of life. This is primarily envy for America’s accomplishments and its hard-won freedoms. It is nothing more than passive aggression egged on by the sense of abject failure and the underachievement of the leadership that has failed the people. The Islamic world today faces new questions. Questions that need to be answered by the main body politic of Islam. How come ‘Muslim blood’ has been targeted, becoming collateral damage in the jihad against infidels? The attacks in Jeddah and Turkey injured 790 fasting Muslims, killed by their own Muslim brothers. Were these Muslims martyrs? Jihad in the month of Ramadan is nothing but a parody of righteousness. dailytimes.com.pk

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45424)	1/8/2004 1:45:29 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 50167

Hi IQBAL LATIF; Re: "Last night living it down at a GT (get together) where half the guys were taking hash (the resin of the marijuana plant) and the rest dancing with the girls to some rap made me astounded as to the ways of the Pakistani elite. People to the core of their opinions are anti-America but this trip has only reinforced my conviction as to the extent that the American imperialism has coopted the third world." Man, I am so sorry to read this. But I'm sure it's not as bad as this short comment suggests, and that some of the good parts of America have leaked out of our borders. This story is one of the reasons why I vote Republican. One of our problems, the last half century, has been the continuous and incremental romantization of drug use by our entertainment industry. -- Carl