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To: yonif
Can someone explain how Arab identity is connected to land lines? I mean seriously, how can Internet capability have any cultural meaning to any culture at this point?

Is this one of those tricky halal things?
5 posted on 08/27/2004 12:14:13 PM PDT by Gingersnap
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To: Gingersnap

I think what they mean is that they won't be able to control it.


8 posted on 08/27/2004 12:15:53 PM PDT by js1138 (Speedy architect of perfect labyrinths.)
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To: Gingersnap
Can someone explain how Arab identity is connected to land lines?

If somebody bitches about pervasive wireless internet access, they have simply run out of things to bitch about or bitching is all they know. Unbelievable.

10 posted on 08/27/2004 12:16:58 PM PDT by kezekiel
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To: Gingersnap

It has to do with freedom of information and the fact that wireless networks are harder to disrupt via bombs.

Free information = death of radical Islam and the ignroance in which the Paleo-stenians live.

Just imagine if the Paleo-stenians started to figure out that the Arabs who peacefully live in Israel have a nice, middle-class, life. That would be an end Arafat.


11 posted on 08/27/2004 12:17:06 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan
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To: Gingersnap; yonif
Can someone explain how Arab identity is connected to land lines?

Easy, they PLO won't be able to monitor internet traffic. It will undermine their control of information.

16 posted on 08/27/2004 12:25:33 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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To: Gingersnap

As far as I can tell, the Arab Identity consists of three things, backwardness, repression and illiteracy.

You can't have uncensored, universal internet access and still maintain a closed 13th century tyranny.


17 posted on 08/27/2004 12:31:21 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: Gingersnap

Might be an issue of invisible rays transporting information.


19 posted on 08/27/2004 12:35:37 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: Gingersnap
Can someone explain how Arab identity is connected to land lines? I mean seriously, how can Internet capability have any cultural meaning to any culture at this point?

Is this one of those tricky halal things?

Sort of. Arabic culture is unusual in its rejection and superstition. Everything to them that is technology is talked about as if it was magic.

There backwardness is not something that is looked down on, but something that is looked up to. Afghanistan barred everything and was as pure a islamic state as one could find. Iran doesn't allow insurance policies since if something happens, its gods will. Technology in there eyes (or at least advanced) supercedes that.

There are however, more then enough terrorists who do use and like technology.

28 posted on 08/27/2004 4:35:35 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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