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To: c.hinton who wrote (241592)	9/12/2007 2:57:13 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine, the same can be said any religion.......scripture is open to interpretation. Its people that decide the directiion of a religion... Rubbish. People don't wake up one morning and overturn their received theology, any more than you woke up this morning and rewrote the American Constitution. Some theological systems are open to interpretation, but others are literal-minded. Anybody who tries single-handedly to open a literal-minded system up to a new interpretation is liable to find himself burned at the stake as a heretic. They don't change easily or quickly. Cf. The European Wars of Religion. The dominant schools in today's Islam (thanks in no small part to Saudi money) are all literal-minded. They are not all preaching violence, but neither are they open to interpretation. You didn't bother to listen to interview, did you?

To: c.hinton who wrote (241592)	9/12/2007 3:09:44 AM
From: c.hinton	Respond to of 281500

nadine here are a few key phrases quoted from that interview...."what it is we can do to ideologicly undermine its appeal.........." key phrases................. understand ideology... bad theology can be countered with good theology... engagement............. find islamic people with innovated ideas who can make a difference ....... over all there is much more anger toward the us that policy makers cannot fathom. iraq leaves us without military options..... we may have bungled a great deal..... this isnt the wizard off oz...you cant click your heels three times and go back.... figuring out who jesus was......