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To: Dale Baker who wrote (1988)	7/20/2005 5:49:49 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 540963

"Terrorists come from and live in cultures. Most terrorist movements are one social group of one sort against another. I don't see how you can divorce the two at all. I can divorce my personal cultural history any time I feel a conflict between it and my commitment to the fundamental principles of my membership in humanity, or when it creates a conflict for my conscience. Most of us have divorced various aspects of our own heritage that may have included some sort of extremism as we have come to recognize more noble principles to bond with. We have witnessed huge cultural revolutions occuring periodically in the USA due to changes in the consciousness of mainstream America. ... and other regions are no different. Right now many terrorists are Egyptian Nationalists who were raised in a fundamentally anti-Western culture, yet the culture of Egypt is currently torn and is likely to be one of the first Muslim nations outspokenly opposed to terrorist cultures. We had our own home grown group of cultural extremists numbering in the thousands and potentially hundreds of thousands, that over a brief week or two went poof and disintegrated after Tim McVea bombed Oklahoma City. When the consciousness of human beings is linked, no form of corruption can oppose it. It is making the linkages that gets tricky.