From: matus@matus1976.com
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 14:57:27 MDT
John K Clark said:
>
> I'm not blasé, I know it's a terrible problem but I also know that making
> nice to Islam will not reduce their anger one iota because the
> root cause of
> that anger was not any specific action committed by the west.
> They are angry
> at us for what we are not what we did. They would be less angry if the
> foundation of the west was some dogma, even some dogma they didn't like,
> instead it is based on free markets and pragmatic problem solving and that
> frightens and angers them. They would be less angry if our system didn't
> work very well but we're rich free and powerful and they are poor
> oppressed
> and weak. 800 years ago Islam was the most advanced civilization on Earth
> but its been straight downhill since, today they are not even second or
> third but dead last; we have the word of The Profit so it can't be our
> fault, it must be due to those evil westerners, our only mistake was
> embracing too many 16'th century ideas, we should go back to 13'th century
> ideas.
>
To emphasize your point
Oslo: Why Us?
"Norwiegians are trying to figure out what they did to earn the enmity of al
Qaida. In an audio tape aired on Al-Jazeera last week, the terror network's
No. 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called on followers to "hit the embassies of
America, England, Australia, and Norway, their interests, their companies,
and their employees; set the ground ablaze under their feet." While the
first three countries took active roles in the conflict in Iraq, Norway did
not. Known for its global peace-making efforts, the country is home to the
Nobel Peace Prize. "Why Norway?" wailed a headling in the Oslo daily
Verdens Gang. "We are very surprised," said a Foreign Ministry spoksman.
"I have no idea why we were named" "
From a news publication
Regards,
Michael Dickey
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