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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (7656)	5/22/2007 9:14:13 AM
From: ExCane	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

GZ- Have you ever read "The Intellectual Origins of America-Bashing" by Lee Harris? See hoover.org He wrote that we will eventually put down this primitive threat. I believe it was written in 2002 or 2003. I only discovered it recently. Though it doesn't address battling the ideology as a whole, including domestically, I would like to think he is correct in his assumption. I mean, here we are in this day and age, battling a ragtag bunch of brainwashed morons whose core ideology is seemingly based on a man's inability to control his sexual urges. Curious to your take on it. A snippet- "the only effect on America of a continuation of September 11-style attacks would be an increasingly repressive state apparatus domestically and a populist home front demand for increasingly severe retaliation against those nations supporting or hiding terrorists. But neither one of these reactions would seriously undermine the strength of the United States — indeed, it is quite evident that further attacks would continue to unite the overwhelming majority of the American population, creating an irresistible “general will” to eradicate terrorism by any means necessary, including the most brutal and ruthless."

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (7656)	5/22/2007 11:15:06 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Minister quits over hug News24 (South Africa) ^ \| 22 May 2007 news24.com Islamabad - Pakistani Tourism Minister Nilofar Bakhtiar was in consultation on Tuesday with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz about her tendered resignation over a controversial hug she exchanged with a French paragliding instructor. Religious leaders demanded her expulsion from the cabinet after newspapers in March published photographs of the embrace after a successful flight in Paris to raise funds for victims of the October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. Bakhtiar said she would step down voluntarily, citing personal hurt at how her charitable act had been portrayed at home. "French media praised my daring attempt but unfortunately some irresponsible elements in Pakistan presented this noble cause in a malicious manner," she told the Dawn newspaper. The minister is one of three woman ministers in the Pakistani government. In her earlier capacity as the prime minister's adviser on women's development, she was at the forefront of moves to grant more equality to women in Pakistan.