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Re: our options
>There are over 1 Billion Muslims in the world. The vast majority are fine
>people that obey the teachings of the Koran as most Jews obey their laws
>and most Christians obey the Bible. But, even 5 per cent of them (for sake
>of argument - I have no idea what the ratio would be and I doubt that
>anyone else does either) might be fundamentalists ready to die for Allah by
>taking down the infidels. That's 50 Million possible soldiers for a Holy
>War.
Anybody feel like this is the "New Crusade?" Likely to end like the old
Crusade?
>I truly hope and pray I am wrong - but my gut feeling tells me otherwise.
>I think it all hinges on our military response and how much more they are
>going to strike back against us.
Maybe Tony Blair has better sense. He's dragging his feet today, insisting
on proof of who was responsible for the attack. A complete lack of allies
might defuse the Bush administration--though it would take a heck of a
diplomat to smooth over the Jihad thing.
BTW, I'm on a couple of lists with younger people, plus I watched a bunch of
them talk on MTV and MSNBC last week. You're right this is a different
generation--they've been raised to respect minority viewpoints, for one
thing--plus a lot of them are Muslim or Buddhist or Hindu. They might not
be so easily influenced by "orchestration" as older WASP generations were.
keets
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