Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Kosovo -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (2601)	4/7/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

If you would examine the principles upon which Bin Laden's philosophy stands you may not consider him so enlightened. Read again the very paraphrasing of that philosophy. I will give you some hints to his philosophical foundations. The central principle upon which his fundamentalism stands is negation What he sees as American nihilism is a clue to what he fears: reason and the independence of thought. He hates America because of what we stand for: liberty and the primacy of the individual. He does not fear the destruction of his people and the subversion of their truths, he fears that they will be given the opportunity for independent thought and the critical search for truth which may contradict his truth. He does not advocate life: he advocates the destruction of life. Yes, Americans have destroyed Arabs. Not only do we pump billions of dollars into their economies, we provide them with the means for a standard of living which people like Bin Laden would destroy. Bin Laden would like his people to be unquestioning slaves to a theocratic Stone Age Kingdom of Allah. Allah Akbar!