North London! My train is down! Anti-war protest! Gilbert and Sullivan! Anxiaty!
First off, thanks to you all who sent me your addresses. I promise that you'll be getting sometype of mail from me in the next couple of weeks as I slowly figure out how my life is going to be these upcoming months
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These groups, by the way, always claim to be non-violent. Hizb-ut Tahrir, which is responsible for the riots in Uzbekistan last year, claimed to be non-violent, but that is just the usual ruse. Sometimes anti-Semitic "peace activists" will talk about the importance of "Palestinian resistance to Israeli oppression"--as if that meant something other than the same old suicide bombers who kill thousands of innocents. Peace? Yeah, whatever. Think of the scene in "Fight Club" where Edward Norton beats himself up in his boss's office, only to have security run in and think his boss is responsible. Brutal as they are--and ready for change--the Middle Eastern regimes that suppress these right-wing Muslim groups are (crudely) keeping their society from sinking into a Medieval abyss. Don't believe me? Let me cite experience in Palestine, Sudan, Lebanon, Somalia, Afghanistan...and increasingly, Iraq. Think these people know what they're doing? They reap what they sow: Violence! We've seen what these groups do.
These guys can be as intellectual as they want, but if they advocate a thousand-year-gone theocracy they are not critical thinkers--they are just a recapitulation of what has come before. Maybe, if they stop talking and listen, they will see what a 19th-century Muslim scholar saw when he stayed in the West: "In France I saw Islam but no Muslims. In Egypt there are Muslims but no Islam."
Oh--don't worry about the socialists. They're quaint.
Sorry I missed you this weekend, went to the Dalai Lama's talk at Rutgers. He was magnificent.
Keep well, Lord Henry of Hightstown. I'll be online.
-Jason (Petrucci)
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