Re: Mischievos question to D. Walters

[David Walters <dwalters@xxxxxxx>]

on 10/13/01 5:13 AM, Gorojovsky at Gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> En relación a Re: More on bin laden's convenient reversal of po,
> el 11 Oct 01, a las 22:43, David Walters dijo:
> 
>>> If he wanted to defeat the US government - rather than help it - he would
>>> have
>>> continued to broadcast his innocence, blame it on the russians, serbs,
>>> indians
>>> and Jews, and say only monsters could accuse Islamists of doing 9-11. (which
>>> is exactly what he had said a week ago). So.......
>> 
>> Ah...IF he was rational, IF he were...a Marxist, IF he thought in
>> conventional political terms. He doesn't so your straw-man of rational bin
>> Laden falls flat...
> 
> Excuse me, David, just out of mischievous curiosity: you are not telling us
> that Islamicists are "irrational", are you?

I think that those groups that function in total outside of stated class
politics and where the religious aspects of their motivation takes on such a
huge and total aspect of their being then they are irrational. Groups like
the Iranian Mujahadeen, "Left Islamists", for example, are not irrational,
since they try to correspond to the class struggle within an Islamicist
perspective, where the Islamic politics, as the Catholic politics of
Solidarity, had clear programmatic goals, and in fact, class goals. I find
groups like the Taliban and their theological fascism, bin Laden's group,
etc to be irrational. Their actions, if in fact they are responsible for the
actions of 9/11, are simply insane and serve no rational political end.

BTW...I love mischievous questions...):<<

David

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