From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 09:36:06 MDT
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:14:03AM -0400, Michael Wiik wrote:
> Amara Graps wrote:
> > Instead of the world being more open,
> > and differences between cultures and religions being accepted and
> > understood better, now the world is more closed, much much less free and
> > several orders of magnitude more paranoid than it was before.
>
> Perhaps, but I am encouraged by readings in the Washington Post about
> how debate is increasing in the Muslim world about what kind of society
> they really want. It seems radical Islam may be on the decline.
But is this because of, or in spite of, the taken US policies? I
think it is far more in spite of them, unfortunately. There were
quite a bit of Muslim self-criticism in the magic days after the
attack too.
No need to cry over spilt milk, the issue is what to do next time
something like this happens.
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