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To: kumar who wrote (3216)	8/18/2007 11:28:05 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4152

if u prefer to bring religion into the context of politics, I suggest u do on some other thread, not on this thread. Capiche ? It is not my doing that brings religion into the context of politics wrt to Hizbullah in Lebanon or Shas in Israel, or the latest Turkish elections, won by the Islamists. It is in place already, put front and center by the parties themselves. What you seem to be saying is that it is only permissible to discuss the secular parties but not the religious parties, or to discuss the religious parties only if one pretends that they are secular. But religious parties tend to behave differently from secular parties, because - guess what! - they are religious. Hands up, anybody, if you think Iran would have acted the same way for the last five years with a secular government in place! Perhaps they would have worked to set a Shia dominated client state in place, instead of hating the Great Satan so much that they helped kill many thousands of Iraqi Shia? Anybody think the NRP (national religious party) in Israel wouldn't care so much about keeping the West Bank if its members weren't National-Religious Zionists, for whom the land deed of the Torah is real as real? You can't discuss politics in the middle east without discussing religion, kumar. They are absolutely intertwined.