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To: Lancer_N3502A
See if he’ll eat a pork sandwich now.

That may sound good as a blurb or a sound-bite, but it's toally and utterly useless as any kind of indicator. No matter whether one has converted or not, that sort of thing is ingrained in a cultural way, so that even if one were to change their thinking and religious orientation, you can't change your years upon years of indoctrination for that kind of food.

It would be like you saying you were going to become a national in some Asian country and now you were expected to eat dogs, or monkey brains. Now although there are some whacky people here in this country who would do such a thing, I'm sure the larger majority would stay totally away from eating dogs and monkey brains, no matter what the justification given was.

And so, likewise, one could change their religious and political orientation and yet not change their diet.

Now, this is not a discussion of whether this terrorist has actually changed his orientation, truly, but merely saying this is totally useless as any kind of indicator at all (seeing if someone will eat a pork sandwich).

Regards,
Star Traveler

96 posted on 10/11/2007 1:59:26 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Star Traveler

It was a joke.


102 posted on 10/11/2007 2:58:25 PM PDT by Lancer_N3502A
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