Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/18

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Subject: [Leica] Photo student harassed in Seattle by Homeland Security
From: msmall at infionline.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Sun Jul 18 15:35:15 2004
References: <3.0.2.32.20040717193456.01c6dfd4@pop.infionline.net>

At 06:37 PM 7/17/04 -0600, Tim Atherton wrote:
>
>Marc - that's a huge oversimplification of the roots of Islamic based
>terrorism and its current modus operandi. It is, among many other things,
>highly political. It's certainly far more complicated than you statement
>indicates.
>
>Such mistaken understanding and oversimplification are at the root of the
>current failures to come anywhere close to dealing with the problem and
>threat (indeed, such understandings seem to have fuelled the actions which
>have actually increased an exacerbated the threat exponentially since 9/11 -
>they are certainly characteristic of the US's dealings with the Taleban and
>Al Qaeda and other Muslim extremists when they were considered allies of the
>US)

Well, Tim, then educate us all.  Tell us HOW Islamic fundamentalism is
primarily political and not cultural or religious.

Marc

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