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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (2513)	12/2/2008 2:43:14 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

"Arabs" and "moslums" are not the same things.... (For ex: Turks are not Arabs. Kurds not Arabs, Iranians not Arabs, Pastun - or any of the hundred or so other native ethnicities in Pakistan are not Arabs. The largest two Muslim-containing nations on the planet - India and Indonesia - don't have many 'Arabs', etc., etc.) And... as far as "Muslims" go... there are some pretty significant differences between various branches --- especially the largest ones, Sunni and Shiite, just as there are among "Christians". People should not be 'asleep' about these important, and very real, distinctions... because it will prove to be utterly impossible to direct significant change if operating from a position of willful ignorance. First: Know your enemy. (Because random luck cannot be relied upon as a policy....)