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To: Lane3 who wrote (87265)	11/19/2004 3:45:10 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793672

Karen, The most overtly racist place I have ever lived or worked in was Boston. It was unexpected. I was living nw of Detroit when I accepted a job in Boston and had a couple of great programmers working for me that I tried to convince to come with me. One of them was black and told me, 'not only no, but hell no'. I had lived at Hanscom as a kid and had no sense of racism and vehemently disagreed with him. Surprising me further he moved to Atlanta where he said blacks were treated better there than New England. He asked me to call him after I had been in Boston for a bit and had looked around and been to a Celtics game. Afterwards I sheepishly called him and had to admit that the largest cluster of blacks in the garden were the players. I also had to admit their was only one black professional in the company I was working with (it did over 300 million in business and had over 1,000 professionals). And most of these went to Harvard, MIT, BC, NE, Dartmouth and UMass.... His comment was Liberal racism is what he sees in Boston. To liberals racism only exists in the South or inner cities. John

To: Lane3 who wrote (87265)	11/20/2004 10:00:31 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793672

Post letter to the editor: What Role for Mosques in the War? Saturday, November 20, 2004; Page A18 Even at this late date [front page, Nov. 12], while quoting the commander of the 1st Marine Division saying that almost every mosque in Fallujah served as an arms cache or factory for improvised explosive devices, The Post once again gives voice to the notion that the insurgency doesn't respect the mosques, whereas the reverse may be true: Islamist respect for insurgency brings mosques into a supportive role. Fallujah's Rawdha Muhammediya mosque served as the headquarters for the self-appointed mujaheddin shura, or city government [front page, Nov. 10], as the Najaf shrine served as headquarters for Moqtada Sadr's militia; both cities were sites of major battles, destruction and significant loss of life. Nevertheless The Post's reporting does not directly address the issue of whether insurgent use of mosques has occurred through seizure, cooptation or by invitation, and it is about time that it did. Since Sept. 11, 2001, The Post has presented brief mentions of explosions in or near mosques related to bomb-making activities that hint at a mosque role in warfare. On Nov. 11, a news story related the life story of a Yemeni jihadi in Fallujah ["Seeking Salvation in City of Insurgents"] who claims each foreign insurgent has a coordinator back home, usually the leader of a mosque. Too many lives are at stake to neglect reporting on what is culturally incomprehensible to Western thinking yet inflammatory to Islamic apologists -- that religious institutions serve as an international base for guerrilla warfare. ANNEMARIE BROWN Falls Church