--- On Tue, 21/4/09, Ravi Bellur <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Ravi Bellur <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, 21 April, 2009, 10:43 PM
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:17 PM,
> Zainab Bawa <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > What makes you believe that Muslims
> > shy away from capitalism?
>
>
> True, and there's also that matter of the bazzillions we
> pay to Muslim
> businessmen for oil (granted not in India, but remember
> that 17 of the 19
> terrorists to whom 9/11 is attributed were Saudi Arabian).
> The west in
> particular has made them some of the richest people in the
> world.
>
> And to be honest, the west (and the US) has meddled
> extensively in that
> region, mostly to dire results (not to mention counter to
> the values of
> democracy and freedom that we ought to be prosetylizing in
> the world).
>
> But that's just because they had the gall to be sitting on
> top of OUR oil!
> (to be said in a Texan accent to best suitably mock those
> in American
> businessmen who thought that way... who probably also ate a
> lot of steak,
> but I doubt that was the root cause of their "moral
> flexibility").
>
> Ask Salvador Allende what happens when you try to get in
> the way of our
> bauxite! I don't know if George Washinton, Thomas
> Jefferson, or Ben Franklin
> would have approved.
Exactly what is this crap supposed to mean? Where are we going with this one?
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