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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (619289)	9/7/2004 1:46:39 PM
From: steve dietrich	Respond to of 769670

Bet they've already told their spy agents which ones to have Bush move on next.

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (619289)	9/7/2004 1:49:12 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"The atrocity of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States has strengthened the long-held belief by some people that Islam is indeed a threat to the world, and that it is not compatible with democracy. However, Islam comes from the same tradition as Judaism and Christianity. They all belive in the same one god, and Islam considers Moses and Jesus to be two of the many Phrophets. The more hardline interpretation of Islam is countered by most Muslims and the three religions share many other principles. As Noah Feldman, professor at the New York University School of Law and expert in Islamic studies suggests in his book After Jihad, America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy, (FSG, 2003), Islamic democracy is possible and many Muslims indeed desire this. Unfortunately, democratic voices are suppressed by autocratic regimes (many supported by the West), who fear loss of power, and, after suppressing democratic movements, can point to the Islamic extremism as the alternative to themselves being in power. Western interests in the Middle East, for example, have led to support and even installation of some of these brutal regimes, both in favor of this over an extremist regime, and to have puppet leaders in the region so that their own geopolitical interests (such as oil and related geostrategic interests) can be met. In the Control of Resources page on this site, this aspect has been detailed, with note that ordinary citizens in the region are often in the middle of these extremes without much voice and ability to change things. Frustration has meant some have been easily recruited to terrorism and the extremist forms of opposition to the autocratic regimes."