Re: Happy New Year, God Bless America...

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From: Lukas Werth (lukas.werth@rz.hu-berlin.de)
Date: 09/19/01-10:17:15 AM Z


Sorry, that was meant to be private.

Lukas

At 11:24 19.09.01 +0200, you wrote:
>Judy,
>
>I think now it is time for an explicit thank you for your on-list
statements.
>
>As a European, I have resisted the temptation of throwing my opinion in
>during these first days. But I am greatly relieved to realise that, as the
>list response by and large shows, some people are still able to think
>reasonably.
>
>One word about the Falwell, Bin Laden, and others: actually, your pun about
>the "contest for god's truth" is nearer to the mark than you might have
>realized yourself: on the phone, I told you about conspiracy theories in
>the Islamic world, but I did not come to tell you that there in fact is a
>vivid exchange between Islamic conspirationalists and reactionary American
>Christian groups, militant groups and so forth. They even cite each other,
>in Pakistan Amrerican books published fro those circles are read and cited
>for support, web sites are accessed...their ideas basically have the same
>structure, they only need a slight twist and tweak to be appied in another
>cultural context.
>
>Lukas
>
>


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