X-Message-Number: 20561 From: Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 13:57:34 -0000 Subject: islam > Message #20558 > Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 14:23:49 -0800 > From: "John Grigg" <> > Subject: How terrorism will really hurt us... > Anton, the mellowing you talk about took Christianity(or perhaps I > should better say the nations/governments which "loosely" subscribed > to it) centuries to achieve. At this point we just don't have > centuries to wait for Islam to "de-radicalize" in an era of chemical, > biological and nuclear weapons. Agreed. Which means Western policy concerning the Middle East is of great importance. Is a war with Iraq going to de-radicalise Islam? Is allowing Israel to carry out its genocidal programme going to de-radicalise Islam? > They will say "we limit your access to these things for YOUR own > good." At that point I will shake my head very sadly at the truly > horrible thing we let the terrorists get us to do to ourselves. Agreed. Since 9/11 the citizens of the US and UK have happily allowed their rulers to infringe their rights already. These governments exercise their own brand of terror. Anton --------------------------------------- http://www.noumenal.net/exiles Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20561