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To: Illbay
He was simply a Marxist revolutionary, and never let the trappings of religion get in his way. The religion angle is just an opiate for the masses, the idiots who are willing to do the actual dying. They are dupes of the cynical puppetmasters whom they serve.

So, you are saying that the root of our little problem with radical Islamists is not Islam, but Marxists?

That is a pretty ridiculous assertion, but even if it was true, it would still be a struggle against an evil ideology with a religious worldview as its source.

Try harder.

258 posted on 03/04/2003 1:34:49 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance
So, you are saying that the root of our little problem with radical Islamists is not Islam, but Marxists?

I'm saying our problem with terrorism is terrorists, whatever their stated goals.

As it happens, though many here are completely clueless of this fact, the PLO and the majority of Palestinian terrorists are not religious at all, but Marxist.

The IRA is not "Catholic," but Marxist.

Add to them the Shining Path in Peru, the FARC in Columbia, the ELN in Venzuela (each of which actually poses a more realistic long-term threat to U.S. interests, being in our "backyard" so to speak) all of which are Marxist, and the pattern becomes clear.

Recall the connection that has since been established between al-Qa'ida and Carlos the Jackal, the infamous Marxist assassin. There is FAR more going on here than a bunch of flea-ridden two-bit Muslim holy men with a wild look in their eyes. MUCH more.

280 posted on 03/04/2003 2:09:51 PM PST by Illbay
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