Re: [tied] Re: Condolences, terrorism and fundamentalism

I think the problem is not the Muslims. Here in Brazil there's huge Jewish
and Muslim communities, and they live in peace.
The problem is : what is feeding and making fundamentalism stronger? The
real problem is the intolerance and the main fundamentalistic concept: "WE
are the good - THEY are the Evil. Everything WE do is RIGHT, everything THEY
do is wrong. WE are the heroes - THEY are the demons." So, as everybody can
see, there's a lot of fundamentalism around the world, including USA, land
of the Ku Klux Klan and rightwing militias like those who explode the
Oklahoma building. And there is also the economic fundamentalism, that is
destroying countries like Argentine and Brazil. And religious fundamentalism
is not only Islamic - in Brazil there's a scary growing number of
neopentecostal 'TV-churches" following the American model of Rex Humbart
amd Jimmy Swaggart . They became millionary fastly, buy TV and Radio
stations, and elect their own politics.
So, the only way to stop terrorism is to attack the roots of it - why there
are people who support them? Nobody is born a terrorist. Terrorism is a
insane way to solve a problem, when other ways are blocked. There are
children in Third World been brainwashed by terrorist militias because they
saw there people being killed, and saw peaceful attempts of solve the
problems being blocked.

Joao SL
Rio de Janeiro

----- Original Message -----
From: Sergejus Tarasovas <S.Tarasovas@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:58 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Condolences


> --- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
> > Since Tuesday I can never be a hippie again. I
> > don't think I should say what I feel and fear for the future in
> this
> > august forum. I will take time out.
> >
> > Is this the fall of Rome?
> >
> > Self-moderated, lest I be moderated. If I should be thrown off the
> > list for this, so be it.
> >
> > Torsten
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> We don't have that situation here in Lithuania yet (but I'm sure it's
> a matter of time and much less attractive living standards), but I
> have lived in Moscow for some years and must say I can understand
> you: the number of new-Muscovites of Muslim origin (mostly from the
> Caucasus) is growing rapidly as is their influence in all the social
> spheres. It's not good or bad by itself, but what I was constantly
> observing here and there is a definite (and sometimes painful)
> collision of two ways of life, a collision in which one usually
> yields it's position (which one yields and why is a too risky topic
> to discuss, yet I'm not a sociologist).
>
> I wouldn't like too much of nonliguistic stuff to be discussed here
> on the list, that's true, but, on the other hand, I don't think one
> must be excluded from the list just because he sees a problem where
> one really exists at least in some aspects.
>
> Sergei
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