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From: "Erica O'Connor" <luca2032 &AElig yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: devotion to islam linked to support of terrorism
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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 <dreeves &AElig umich.edu> 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.
> 
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> Subject: Michigan Today NewsE - June 2005
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> ...
> 
> 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.)
>