>I do not buy it. I do not think that islamic leaders "represent" the
>oppressed masses in any meaningful way. They seem to be simply fascist
>entrepreneurs gaining windfall from popular dissatisfaction. In that way,
>they are no diffrent than fascist thugs in Italy who attracted the peasant
> followers by dispensing favors and privileges bankrolled by landowners.
>
>It is a sad commentary on the state of the Left to see it being so starved
>for a revolution that they take an obviously reactionary, sponsored from
>above, plot for one.
There's a big difference between saying that terrorists emerge from a severly discontented population and saying that they're good guys (which they're not).
Doug