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To: SJackson
If Wahhabism/Salafism is the problem, then American armed forces should be unhesitatingly deployed to uproot centres of violence, backwardness and anachronism wherever they are -- even if that requires invading the entire eastern part of the Arab world.

(snip) * The writer teaches history and Islamic studies at Birkbeck College and the Muslim College, London.


"You there... Colonial... please go fight my battles for me? I'm too busy negotiating this plate of tea and crumpets..."
4 posted on 01/12/2003 6:56:08 AM PST by jedwardtremlett
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To: jedwardtremlett
Was it not the United States that stopped Britain, France, and Israel from removing Nasser, in the 50's?
5 posted on 01/12/2003 7:01:13 AM PST by ABrit
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To: jedwardtremlett
If Wahhabism/Salafism is the problem, then American armed forces should be unhesitatingly deployed to uproot centres of violence, backwardness and anachronism wherever they are -- even if that requires invading the entire eastern part of the Arab world.
"You there... Colonial... please go fight my battles for me? I'm too busy negotiating this plate of tea and crumpets..."

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Hey, he's right. If we did he'd be screaming about imperialists, but I'd take his rhetoric over Wahhabi terror.

15 posted on 01/12/2003 10:38:19 AM PST by SJackson
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