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To: quidnunc

I would question the accuracy of the polls, given the nature of most governments in the Islamic world, and what happens to people who don't toe the line.
That being said there is a tendancy in the Islamic world to believe conspiracy theories.
I'd also like to see the poll where that question was asked.
If it's true how do we explain the last elections in Indonesia and Malaysia? Or for that matter what's happening in Iraq?


63 posted on 11/24/2004 9:43:22 PM PST by Valin (Out Of My Mind; Back In Five Minutes)
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To: Valin
Valin wrote:

I would question the accuracy of the polls, given the nature of most governments in the Islamic world, and what happens to people who don't toe the line. That being said there is a tendancy in the Islamic world to believe conspiracy theories. I'd also like to see the poll where that question was asked. If it's true how do we explain the last elections in Indonesia and Malaysia? Or for that matter what's happening in Iraq?

You don't need a poll.

A Frenchman wrote a book to that effect which became a runaway best seller in Europe.

This same book has now sold 400,000 copies in the Middle East, a region so book-adverse that sales of just a few thousand copies will put a book on the best-seller list.

This is one reason why so few books are translated into Arabic, they won't sell enough copies to make the effort profitable.

65 posted on 11/24/2004 9:54:12 PM PST by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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