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To: one_less who wrote (165769)	7/11/2005 1:33:05 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

How wrong you are. U.S. history shows support in the muslim world of Arab oil-state “tyrannies.” And that is still the case. Wake me up when Saudi Arabia has freedom and democracy. You know Saudi Arabia don't you? Where almost all but one of the 9/11 hijakers came from. This guy has it right: Scheuer, who headed the CIA’s bin Laden unit for nine years, sees a different way out — through U.S. foreign policy. He said he resigned last November to expose the U.S. leadership’s “willful blindness” to what needs to be done: withdraw the U.S. military from the Mideast, end “unqualified support” for Israel, sever close ties to Arab oil-state “tyrannies.” msnbc.msn.com

To: one_less who wrote (165769)	7/11/2005 2:49:13 PM
From: Keith Feral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Actually, I think a very large percentage of Muslims supported terrorists as freedom fighters for way too long. They got to do all the "dirty work" for the people that did not have a chance to stand up for themselves. However, when the freedom movement turned salafi, Muslims found themselves staring at the sharp edge of a sword. They found themselves threatened in all aspects of their daily lives from school to work to religious autonomy. They can no longer live with the freedom fighters turned fundamentalists. You just can't trust a serial killer for very long. They may say the sweetest things in the world in the name of Allah, but they only know one thing - total repression. Would any Protestant trust a KKK supremist that killed his Protestant neighbor for talking to a black person at the store? You sure as hell might stay clear of the SOB for awhile. Eventually, the shock and fear is going to fade and you are going to get pissed off and utterly reject the violence. I think the Muslims are getting to this point right now.