From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 22 3:10:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1705D37B401; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 03:10:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f9MAAVl48505 ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 12:10:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id MAA30923 ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 12:10:26 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 12:10:26 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Greg Lehey Cc: Terry Lambert , Stephen McKay , Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Islam (was: Religions (was Re: helping victims of terror)) Message-ID: <20011022121026.C28419@lpt.ens.fr> References: <1003617187.3bd1fba3d31ff@webmail.neomedia.it> <1003617187.3bd1fba3d31ff@webmail.neomedia.it> <4.3.2.7.2.20011020213927.048a1780@localhost> <200110211547.f9LFlIB27704@dungeon.home> <3BD32635.EC54F003@mindspring.com> <20011022105743.B18153@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011022105743.B18153@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:57:43AM +0930 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey said on Oct 22, 2001 at 10:57:43: > > After the celebrations in the streets of the West bank following the > > events of September 11th, I think you will find this a hard sell. > > You mean the stunt put on for the press? What makes you think that > that's the general opinion in the Middle East? The media is a remarkable thing in forming opinions and attributing them to other people. To read a different angle, from an American student who actually lives in Palestine doing his doctoral research, unlike the rest of us who just watch TV, see http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?sid=1&fname=andrew&fodname=20010918&secname= This article is about the days immediately after September 11; today the mood may be quite different. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message