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To: LindyBill who wrote (151071)	12/15/2005 2:19:56 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793843

Lindy, I don't know what an orientalist view of Islam is. I have no idea who Edward Said is/was. I could ask Google of course. <You and I grew up with Kipling, and an "orientalist" view of Islam. Multiculturalism and Edward Said killed that view of the Arabs and the Muslim culture.> I was very uninterested in history, and still am really. I was brought up with a forward-looking attitude to life, I think my parents' forward-looking attitudes derived from the reasons which sent their ancestors to New Zealand, at the other end of Earth. There was no going back and nothing to go back to. Basically, they were orphans and refugees [half of them]. It annoys me when people go on about poverty. Especially when they talk about it as though it causes crime. Also when they say the disparity between the wealthy and poor is a problem. I wasn't brought up with envy. I was brought up to work and to get on with doing good things. By today's measures, we were poor. Even then, we were very basic [I had to learn to not be embarrassed by lack of material possessions]. I was also brought up atheistically, which doesn't mean it was rammed down my throat [not much rams down there]. My parents thought we offspring should form our own view of the world through experience and reasoning. Admittedly, I had built-in 'wealth' in that I could always do things quite easily, though having a good attitude made a lot of things easier too. So that was like cheating. I don't think I've had an unrealistic view of "our enemy". I had a more unrealistic view of governments and socialism and 1984-style government is, I now realize, my true enemy. Trigger-happy air marshals worry me more than Islamic Jihad because even if they aren't shooting, their type is lurking everywhere, being authoritarian. Bossy, intrusive, kleptocratic government departments are everywhere, suffocating people. Mqurice