Tariq clarifies

Ted Winslow egwinslow at home.com
Thu Sep 27 11:01:39 PDT 2001


Doug writes:


> Ted Winslow wrote:
>
>> I take it then that he isn't suggesting it's obvious that only their means
>> were wrong when he claims that the "obvious" answer to the question, "What
>> made them decide to sacrifice their own lives and thousands of others?", is
>> belief that "the Gulf War was a crime against the people of Iraq",
>> opposition to "the continued occupation of Palestine and Western complicity
>> with the suffering of the Palestinians", and opposition to "the corrupt and
>> hypocritical Arab regimes and venal political leaders who refuse to
>> re-distribute wealth".
>
> Well, he said in his interview with me that radical Islamists (and I
> know Chip said not to use that word, but Tariq used it frequently)
> had a lot in common with fascists, which I take to be extreme
> disapproval of ends as well as means.
>

He explicitly disconnects the "middle-class graduates in Saudi Arabia and Egypt ... who carried out these monstrous actions" from "the illiterate bearded fanatics in Afghanistan".

Ted



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