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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Paul,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ok, i agree we can discuss the truths and
rules imposed on us by all the religions. I often think that they make us
sick, they separate us,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>they encourage us being enemy of each
other rather then brothers. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Or maybe, not
the religions but the leaders do so.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jon,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you for keeping us informed and sharing with
us what is happening in London but I am very doubtful that your (G8) leaders are
wise</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>as mentioned in your mail. Our leaders are
not wise either.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But even worse, i am afraid they cooperate
more to be in power rather then for the benefit of all the human
beings and the world.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Did anyone watch Fahrenheit 9/11?....What i
saw there was; some men in power (religious, business leaders) from
all the religions </FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>coming together to play with the rest of the
world.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If we look around carefully to find who is
responsible of what is happening, I don't think the answer is "a
bunch of terrorists" </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Funda</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, July 09, 2005 9:37
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: London calling--long
reply</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT face=Geneva color=#000000
size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>In a message dated 7/8/05 11:10:06 PM, <A
href="mailto:chris.corrigan@gmail.com">chris.corrigan@gmail.com</A>
writes:<BR><BR><BR>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">I don't usually weigh in on stuff like this, and I'm sure
others will tan your hide for it, but Paul, I have to stand in front of the
rash generalizations you are making about
"Muslims."<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT><FONT face=Geneva color=#000000 size=2
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR><BR>Sorry, Chris, I don't regard those as "rash
generalizations", Friedman is correct, NO high order Muslim from any Muslim
nation has issued a fatwa on bin Laden and his followers. By that I mean
someone of the stature that issued the fatwa against Salman Rushdie for
publishing a book they deemed defamed Muhammad. The Muslim Islamic
cleric leader of Iran. <BR><BR>And, of course, you are
correct. There are millions of Muslims who abhor what is
happening. They want peace, too. They want a life of freedom,
economic security, etc., why else would they leave their repressive homelands
to come to the Western nations? Friedman's point (and mine) is unless
IMPORTANT people of the leadership of Muslim nations start to speak out in
loud, consistent tones that such is not part of the Koran (Ch. 5, v. 32; ch.
17, v. 33 according to an Immam I heard on the news tonight) </FONT><FONT
face=Geneva color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><I>and their societies
begin to isolate and negate these people,</I></FONT><FONT face=Geneva
color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"> we are in for a very bad time,
indeed.<BR><BR>You may be enlightened, but I will predict that if this goes
on, and gets worse, large numbers of people will not be acting in an
enlightened manner. We all know about the 'tipping point'. It
happens in societies, too. It CAN happen here. Imagine the reaction of
even a very large minority to a WMD incident in a major Western nation.
It won't be pretty.<BR><BR>Finally, there is much that can be done to avoid
Huntington's Thesis, but it takes a long time, a long time, and will take
something along the line of Martin Luther's 95 Theses within Islam before we
will see a genuine rapproachment between the globalizing West and the Islamic
world. I believe we need to see the world as it is, not as we wish it
was, and take steps accordingly.<BR><BR>Sincerely,<BR><BR>Paul
Everett<BR><BR></FONT><FONT face=Geneva color=#000000 size=2
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