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Re: [RC] bin Ladens son wants to put on an Endurance Ride across Africa - Barbara McCrary

Omar doesn't criticize his father and says Osama bin Laden is just trying to defend the Islamic world.

"My father thinks he will be good for defending the Arab people and stop anyone from hurting the Arab or Muslim people any place in the world," he said, noting that the West didn't have a problem with his father when he was fighting the Russians in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

Above is a quote from the article.  Did America have a problem with the Islamic world before the World Trade Center was bombed?  I always thought that most Americans are "live and let live" about other people's religions and cultures.  Maybe I'm naive about that.

It's very difficult to trust when we have been attacked on our own soil, but then again, I think we have done a pretty lousy thing by attacking Iraq.  At least it's not a very productive and conclusive war for us...just very costly and damaging.  If we suspected bin Laden was the instigator of the WTC attacks, and he is thought to be in Pakistan or Afghanistan, then what are we doing in Iraq?  And why do we think we can convert other countries to our ideal of democracy?  It just doesn't work for everyone.

I find it all very troubling.  I'm not sure I can imagine how an endurance ride will be of much help.

Barbara

 

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From: Mike Lewis
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[RC] bin Ladens son wants to put on an Endurance Ride across Africa, Tom Sites
Re: [RC] bin Ladens son wants to put on an Endurance Ride across Africa, Barbara McCrary
Re: [RC] bin Ladens son wants to put on an Endurance Ride across Africa, Mike Lewis