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To: VLAD who wrote (28339)	8/26/1998 12:33:00 AM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

VLAD, The muslim militants have more fun killing the 82% of the world's population that is not muslim. (Indeed did anyone hear of any muslim majority country expressing either regrets or outrage over the twin bombings and dead babies, women, and children in either Kenya or Tanzania?? Maybe they did, but it sure escaped my attention...). But note they won't attack oil industry infrastructure since they hope to come to power and use the funds from the oil industry to finance their activities much like the minority muslim Government in Nigeria.... But IMO do not give too much credence to the militants, known as "the beards" amongst moderate muslims. IMO they reflect a lifestyle that is dying off as the same groundswell of modernization that is rolling over Asia, Africa, and Latin America finally comes to the Middle East and SW Asia- the trend is irresistible as items such as women's rights, freedom of speech, education, freedom of religion, etc. come to the fore in Arabic, North African and SW Asian countries... You simply canot 'yank" a country backwards away from progress/information such as the Taliban Militia is trying in Afghanistan...Or to put it bluntly- Taliban vs. the Internet. Now who do you think is going to win? Sincerely, Doug F.