From: trawick-AT-clear.net.nz Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 16:21:31 +1200 Subject: RE: Andrew Sullivan on Islamic & Christian fundamentalism This is just a small comment. Sullivan writes: "I cannot help thinking of this defensiveness when I read stories of the suicide bombers sitting poolside in Florida or racking up a $48 vodka tab in an American restaurant." Huh? The observant Muslims I know do not drink alcohol. I think the Qu'ran forbids it. Therefore, if the suicide bombers were in fact drinking vodka, they could not have been observant Muslims, much less "Islamic fundamentalists." It is neither difficult nor fanatical to abjure alcohol one's whole life long. And if a person were planning a difficult and dangerous mission, he would avoid the alcohol habit for all the obvious reasons. This one little point vitiates Sullivan's whole argument, imho. (Omar - I am sending this from a different computer than my usual one and it may be bounced back from the poco list for this reason. If you don't mind, would you forward it on to the list? Thanks. MT) --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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