Re: Why?

From: Bill Spight (bspight@pacbell.net)
Date: Fri Sep 14 2001 - 18:33:04 BST

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From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Why?
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    All:

    I found this a surprising view:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28620-2001Sep14.html

    I haven't really digested it, but I suppose that the idea is that the
    secularization of American culture has played a part in making the U. S.
    a target of Islamic fundamentalists. IOW, the image of the U. S. as the
    "Great Stan (Satan)" is partly true.

    OTOH, if America were a theocracy, we would not have been a target. Like
    the much more theocratic Israel. Right!

    Bill

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