Isn't today but a horrid repeat of a tragic past? Why didn't the despots now controlling US America learn history and compassion? Had they a loving childhood and decent education they would have! Is it too late now for those brutes to become wise and develop love? If so they could never compensate those so dreadfully harmed; certainly not those no longer existing! Can decent US Americans stop these hideous actions while some lacking omnipotence remain unharmed?
January 30, 2005 By JOHN KIFNER NY Times
A Tide of Islamic Fury, and How It Rose
Writing about the aftermath of World War I in the Middle East in his epic study, "A Peace to End All Peace" (Avon, 1989), David Fromkin stated that "the modern belief in secular civil government is an alien creed in a region most of whose inhabitants for more than a thousand years, have avowed faith in a Holy Law that governs all of life, including government and politics."
"European officials at the time had little understanding of Islam," he continued. "They were too easily persuaded that Muslim opposition to the politics of modernization - of Europeanization - was vanishing. Had they been able to look ahead to the last half of the 20th century, they would have been astonished by the fervor of the Wahhabi faith in Saudi Arabia, by the passion of religious belief in warring Afghanistan, by the continuing vitality of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Syria and elsewhere in the Sunni world and by the recent Khomeini upheaval in Shiite Iran.
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