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To: Lou Weed who wrote (251194)	12/10/2007 7:42:17 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

But to disparage Bin Laden's ethnic group on the grounds of HIS maniacal fantasies would be a very sweeping generalization It would be sweeping indeed, yet the question remains: would it be baseless, or is there some ground for thinking that Bin Laden's fantasys are not his alone, but are well grounded in his ethnic group, especially if you don't define his ethnic group as "all Arabs" but more narrowly. How about "Salafi Saudis" as an ethnic group? Now it becomes hardly to dismiss as an overgeneralization, for upon examination you see that Bin Laden is drawing on a widely shared fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, which is well supported by many texts of the Koran and Hadith and is taught by many prominent Saudi imams. On this look, bin Laden is the true believer who acted on what is widely believed by others. You could compare him to the fervently pious 19th Methodist kid who picked up and went to Africa as a missionary. Many believed; he acted. What do you say to that?