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From: jnawaz@skat.usc.edu (Jemshed Nawaz)
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Subject: Re: "Not Without My Daughter"
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Date: 12 Feb 91 06:10:24 GMT
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In article <1991Feb7.042502.10442@nntp-server.caltech.edu> jlodman@cs.ucsd.edu (Michael Lodman) writes:
>
>My suggestion to the Islamic world would be to clean your own house
>before taking on the rest of the world. If these people (terrorists etc.) do
>not represent Islam, make efforts to show the rest of the world this. The 
>efforts I've seen to date are trully pitiful, making me wonder if these people>are not in fact speaking for most Moslems, and Islam. 
>
>If this is the case, the negative feelings of people such as Mr. Looi are
>understandable. If not, you all have a lot of work to do.....
>

		Just as Michael claims that Muslims are responsible
	for having a bad image(of terrorists), the Americans are then
	responsible for creating the terrorists themselves. It's the
	US govt and the CIA which are responsible for making the
	Middle East a trouble spot, and they've been doing it all in
	your(American people's) name(yes because even now when Bush is
	causing destruction of Iraq he claims he has an ovewhelming
	support of the American people). So think of the Palestinians
	who have been exiled from their homeland and persecuted, think
	of the Lebanese who have witnessed atrocities committed
	against them, and many many others, and they all know America
	is behind it in one way or another.  So if the American public
	doesnot speak against its govt and doesn't bother to find out
	what it is doing around the world in their name, then in the
	view of Middle Easterners the blood of their people is on the
	American people's hands. A person who has lost his relatives,
	daily witnesses persecution and feels helpless to do anything
	about it because the rest of the world couldn't give a damn
	about their suffering, could be inclined to take his revenge
	upon the people whom he sees as being behind the oppression
	(the Americans) the only way he can ---terrorism.
		We, Muslims, are against terrorism just as much as you
	are, but the circumstances which bring about terrorism are not
	in our hands.
		One reason you don't see strong criticism of terrorism
	from Muslims as you would like is because the way the Muslims
	view it, rounding up all the terrorists and getting rid of
	them won't solve the problem; the problem has to be attacked
	at the roots, and the roots of terrorism lies in the
	machinations of the CIA, the roots lie right here in USA
	because people don't care what their govt is up to.
	

> >-- >Michael Lodman	Department of Computer Science Engineering
>	University of California, San Diego
>jlodman@cs.ucsd.edu			(619) 672-1673


Jemshed Nawaz