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   "ROBBIE"  wrote in message   
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   > "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
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   > > You don't think greater economic fairness would reduce the   
   > > popularity of religious excess?   
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   > Not in the slightest. Some points:   
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   > 1 Osama Bin Laden and his upper echelon colleagues are all upper-middle   
   > class playboys who decided to become intensely conservative.   
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   > 2 The Muslims who will kill the next batch of Londoners will be second   
   > generation people who have never been poverty struck and who have been the   
   > beneficiaries of greater economic fairness - much greater - simply by   
   their   
   > parents wanting to escape the serfdom of the Islamic world and make it big   
   > here. Their children, rather like certian choleric Boston Irishmen, get   
   > certain romantic ideas and - via the koran - a furious desire to punish   
   the   
   > debaucheries of the West. (I'm often tempted to ask the many Muslim   
   > tobacconists I encounter their views about paying for their   
   Mercedez-Benzes   
   > with money made from selling alcohol and pornography - my old man   
   maintains   
   > that porn did not arrive in suburban tobacconists until the Indians and   
   > Pakistanis cornered the market in them. AND BEFORE YOU think ill of my old   
   > man I might add that he was - like most Englishmen - a natural   
   > multiculturalist until the Left made it compulsory and declared its   
   > intention of dismantling his country and culture - even the Germans   
   couldn't   
   > do that, not even with the V2 rocket that blew his house to pieces in   
   > Peckham in 1944 (while he and his mother crouched in a Morrison shelter   
   > *inside*) but sure enough, the Left got stuck in, and are slowly and   
   surely   
   > finishing the job off.   
   >   
   > 3) The 7th July terrorists were not from poverty. One of them left an   
   > enormous sum in his will.   
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   >   
   > Marx sneered at Christianity, but Islam would have given him the night   
   > sweats.   
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   > ROBBIE   
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   I'll also add that my old man was glad for Indian and Pakistani tobacconists   
   because their white forerunners were mostly rude and their shops rarely   
   open.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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