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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (124042)	1/30/2004 3:49:45 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

A solution that requires ending tribalism won't work, because tribalism is coded in our genes. The solution is to do what Mohammed did in the Arabian peninsula, 1400 years ago. Back then, each Arab tribe was its own nation, and engaged in endless thievery and violence against other tribes. Loyalty was defined by kinship. Mohammed had the idea, of melting all these little tribalisms into one big tribe called Islam. His "tribe" was the Muslim community, based on ideology rather than kinship. Loyalty was based on shared ideas, not shared genes. It was spectacularly successful, for about 150 years, until the Muslim Tribe fragmented back into littler squabbling tribes. My tribe is anyone who takes seriously the rule: Thou Shalt Not Kill. Which, at present, includes a tiny minority of Muslims and Christians.