Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!yale!husc6!panda!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-trillian!martillo From: martillo@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Yakim Martillo) Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc Subject: Re: Frenchmen getting bombed, why them? Message-ID: <1238@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU> Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 10:48:27 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-tril.1238 Posted: Wed Oct 8 10:48:27 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Oct-86 04:57:27 EDT References: <7206@sri-spam.ARPA> <117200172@inmet> <375@garth.UUCP> Reply-To: martillo@trillian.UUCP (Yakim Martillo) Organization: MIT Project Athena Lines: 49 In article <375@garth.UUCP> baba@garth.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) writes: >In article <117200172@inmet> janw@inmet.UUCP writes: >> >>[tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP ] >>>If the Muslims aren't smart enough to stop waging war against Eu- >>>rope and the United States they will provoke more and more >>>violent reaction until one side or the other gives in. I guaran- >>>tee you it won't be the west, although the fight may be extremely >>>destructive. >> >>Well, Tom, you've been right before - before the Libyan raid which >>you more or less predicted. I, for one, am listening to you now. >> >> Jan Wasilewsky > >And I, for one, am wondering just what "the Muslims" have to do with >all this. Paris is being attacked by Lebanese Maronite Catholics. >Have you guys been out drinking with Martillo or something? > > Baba The founders of this particular terrorist organization are Arab Christians; however, that hardly means that all or even many of the members are Arab Christians. The organization is apparently an off-shoot of the Lebanese branch of the Syrian Socialist National Party which is apparently an off-shoot of the Arab Renaissance Party (the Ba`ath Party). This party which in two hostile incarnations is the ruling party of Syria and Iraq was initially founded by Arab (or perhaps more correctly Aramean) Christians. Most of the founders of the various Arab nationalist parties are Arab Christians or Arab Jews. The conditions for non-Muslims in Muslim countries at the turn of the century was so bad that many non-Muslims were desperately seeking a formula under which non-Muslims could live in Muslim countries without the usual Islamic oppression. They introduced the concept of a secular Arab nationalism which was eventually accepted by the Islamic elite but which rather quickly mutated into an even more brutal form of Arab Islamic Nationalism. The Christian leaders still hang around as window dressing for Western world but these parties have just become a vehicle for the expression of some form of brutal Muslim ideology. The Christians survive by being more Muslim than the Muslims which currently requires apparently bombing France and rather extreme antiSemitic expression. The Abdallah clan who founded the organization lives in a village in Syrian controlled territory and probably takes orders directly from the Syrian Secret Police. The organization is particularly convenient for the Secret Police (who are Muslims), because more mush-minded Westerners will look at this terrorism and deny that it is just another expression of Muslim brutality and contempt for non-Muslim life and Western governments will refrain from punishing Syria as it should be punished.