> good points! and glad to have someone's take on it who actually read the
> article.
(which did not include me, just to be clear; and in case anyone read the
wrong tone into that)
I think a great thing about improvetheworld is our esteem for the whole
truth, looking at issues deeply, etc.
> (about subject line, yes, it was kind of meant to mock the study's
> disingenuous headline)
>
> --- \/ FROM yvorobey Æ umich.edu AT 05.06.23 13:20 (Today) \/ ---
>
> > More than the number of anti-bombing mullahs. My suspicion after reading
the
> > article, though, is that the correlation in Palestine is quite strong. I
do
> > agree with Danny that the headline was quite misleading, as was, of
> > course, his
> > subject line... The study really only focused on one indicator of private
> > worship (frequency of prayers) and one indicator of public worship
(frequency
> > of mosque attendance). I get the impression from reading a variety of
sources
> > that mullahs in the PA (palestinian authority) range between
> > "understanding" to
> > openly supportive of terrorism, though few may actually recruit people for
it.
> > The story would certainly be different in a place like Ann Arbor, though,
> > again, I get the impression that there are not very many tears shed over
> > innocent Israelis dying in terrorist attacks.
> >
> > In any case, the important distinction made in the study between public and
> > private worship does make the results much clearer (and fills me with some
> > optimism). Particularly, it does empirically reinforce (for me) something
I've
> > already believed: that Mulsim religious leaders are a significant part of
the
> > problem. Of course, all the obvious qualifications of this statement
> > apply. But
> > it also means that if those religious leaders who oppose it become more
> > outspoken and more numerous, the balance may well shift, and shift quickly.
> >
> > Eugene
> >
> > Quoting Kevin Lochner :
> >
> > > how many pro-bombing mullah's would it really take to effect a positive
> > > correlation?
> > >
> > > - kevin
> > >
> > >
> > > "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
> > > -- G.W. Bush, --Reuters, May 5, 2000 (Thanks to Allison Fansler.)
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Erica O'Connor wrote:
> > >
> > >> Given that this study is even ligitimate, sounds like
> > >> it found something not all that surprising, namely,
> > >> sitting around the house being devout isn't as
> > >> inspiring to a would-be-suicide-terrorist-supporter as
> > >> going to a big religious gathering of like-minded
> > >> individuals every day.
> > >> -Erica
> > >> Quote included to to please Daniel anyway:
> > >> "Man will not be free until the last king is strangled
> > >> with the entrails of the last priest."
> > >> -by I forget who, Diderot?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --- Daniel Reeves wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > I'm not thinking about much else but thesis for next
> > >> > several weeks but
> > >> > this just struck me as amusing. My (cynical) take
> > >> > is that a study linked
> > >> > religiosity to terrorism and then they decided that
> > >> > wasn't so PC so they
> > >> > found some obscure religiosity metric that they
> > >> > failed to correlate with
> > >> > terrorism and used that as the headline to make it
> > >> > sound like they found
> > >> > the opposite of what they really found. Or more
> > >> > likely the whole study's
> > >> > just BS. Ok, I'm going back in my hole now.
> > >> >
> > >> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > >> > From: U-M News Service
> > >> >
> > >> > Subject: Michigan Today NewsE - June 2005
> > >> >
> > >> > UofM News
> > >> >
> > >> > If you have trouble reading this email please visit:
> > >> > http://www.umich.edu/NewsE/ June 2005
> > >> >
> > >> > ...
> > >> >
> > >> > Personal devotion to Islam is unrelated to support
> > >> > for suicide bombing
> > >> > among Palestinian Muslims, according to a study at
> > >> > the Institute for
> > >> > Social Research. But the more often Muslims attended
> > >> > mosques, the more
> > >> > likely they were to support suicide terrorism.
> > >> > (Islamic text image, from
> > >> > U-M Museum of Art.)
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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yet to pinpoint exactly what it is that causes, say, the Smith family to
splash about their backyard pool blissfully unaffected while, just over
the fence, the Jones family languishes 30 percent overweight on their
barbecue deck." -- Scientists Still Seeking Cure for Obesity, theonion.com
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