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To: Road Walker who wrote (216270)	1/28/2005 11:52:28 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586210

Perhaps I do, but you have to ask yourself in a very unbiased way, if Fundamentalist Islam is really such a good thing. It was easy to point to Nazis and say those are bad people, because they were part of a government that we could fight back against. It's much hard in Western culture to point to a segment of a religion and say those are bad people, because we are all taught from a very early age to respect everyone's choice of religion. Unfortunately, Fundamentalist Islam is more of a political ideology, with violent means to their ends. So if I take dead aim at them in my posts, it is because I recognize the threat for what it is. In most of my posts nowadays, I am careful to put the word "Fundamentalist" in front of Muslims, to segregate them from the moderate, peaceful Muslims of the world. However, I have been adamant that this Fundamentalist movement is more widespread than people think. In the Middle east, a survey was done to find out what people thought of Osama and 99% of the respondents said they admired him and looked to him as a hero. In that kind of atmosphere, you have to wonder if there are any moderates left in the Middle East. I'm not saying that the U.S. has done anything to win friends over there, but I think it is a little misguided to say that Fundamentalist Islam is a fringe phenomenon. It is going mainstream and that is a very big threat to Western security.