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<DIV><SPAN class=953552012-11072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#000080>Paul</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=953552012-11072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=953552012-11072005><FONT face=Arial color=#000080>Thank you for
your comments and support. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=953552012-11072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=953552012-11072005><FONT face=Arial color=#000080>I think the
core problem is that certain groups of people (and Moslems are by no means alone
in this) regard other groups as being of less value. To my mind a person dying
in Fallujah, London, New York, Jerusalem or the West Bank - are all of equal
value - no life is worth more than any other. I look forward to a time when the
women and men of religion throughout the world, of all religions,
unaninmously condemn <EM>all</EM> acts of violence - be they acts that kill
people, maim or mutilate people, impoverish people or push people to
despair - instead of (as many of them do) excusing acts of such violence in
names of 'war', 'the market' or distorted ideas of 'freedom' (which are often
code for 'my freedom to have licence over your life..')</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=953552012-11072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=953552012-11072005><FONT face=Arial color=#000080>All violence
is wrong. Any religion which actively or tacitly supports such violence is not a
religion I can support. In this sense it is not a Moslem problem - it is a World
problem, I believe.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=953552012-11072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=953552012-11072005><FONT face=Arial color=#000080>Peace be with
you</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=953552012-11072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=953552012-11072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#000080>Jon</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> EVERETT813@aol.com
[mailto:EVERETT813@aol.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 09 July 2005 01:34<BR><B>To:</B>
only.connect@virgin.net; OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
London calling--long reply<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT
face=arial,helvetica><FONT face=Geneva color=#000000 size=2
FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Jon,<BR><BR>Just as it is for me, personally, peace is an
inside job. Until the Muslim societies do what Mr. Friedman talks about
in the below editorial, we are going to be in this assymetrical warfare,
tacitly supported by Muslim's the world over. Remember the Palestinians
dancing in the streets when 9/11 occurred? That attitude toward the West
hasn't gone away. Muslim societies MUST make this terrorism a totally
unacceptable response to real or imagined grievances, just as North Ireland's
courageous ladies are beginning to do there. Just as the West did when
it intervened in Kosovo, on the side of the Muslims there. <BR><BR>Peace
is an inside job. There is no peace where expansionist Muslim societies
rub up against others of different beliefs in many parts of the world.
There is a bad litany of religious violence all over Africa, Asia and SE Asia
where others believe differently than the Muslim's do. The idea that
religion can be spread by violence is what must also be confronted by the
Muslim leadership itself. The world is NOT going to become Muslim, no
matter how much Osama and his ilk think it should be. Or, the folks in
Sudan think it should be. Or, in Indonesia. The rest of the world
will fight back. If it gets really grim, tens of millions will
die. Huntington's theses will have been proven true, to the great
detriment of the world's peoples. <BR><BR>So, the solution is for the
Muslim folks to decide they aren't the only Way to God around this planet
(true of the right wing Christian folk, too, but they aren't out blowing up
themselves, initiating slaughters like in Darfur, Nigeria, etc.) and decide
that want to live in harmony and peace with their neighbors, who just happen
to believe differently than they do. I'm sure the majority of them do
want peace and harmony. But, the truth is, many don't. Those who
do had better start speaking out and saying so in loud words that have the
impact like the fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie, who had to go into hiding
to save his life.<BR><BR>These are un-PC comments, I realize, but they are
reflections of what I see in the world where Muslim's dominate or are trying
to dominate. The recent reports by the UN, done by Muslim scholars, give
strong evidence that some people do see that their societies are the creators
of their own problems. Only one example: disenfranchisement of women in
nearly all those societies (but not all, I realize, Turkey a real exception)
for education, choice of husband, choice of whether or not to have a family,
female genital mutilation, etc.; a whole half of their population repressed in
ways we can't even comprehend. They detail these kinds of repressive
practices. And the lack of societal hope because of their dictatorial
governments, which the West has supported and condoned, to their detriment,
too.<BR><BR>Peace is an inside job, everywhere.<BR><BR>Paul
Everett<BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>
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