[ ARC forum 2 ]
Written by Ralesk at 11 Apr 2003 18:58:27: Re: What's in a name?
As an answer to: Re: What's in a name? written by Ivan at 11 Apr 2003 17:40:26:
> 1) I had thought that one of the mosque compounds in a valley of the non-Kurdish parts of northern Iraq had been shown to be an Al Qaeda (whatever it might be called) base - is that in dispute?
Osama is a fundamentalist and a fanatic Muslim. Saddam is nearmost to a non-religious communist --- the Ba'ath originated from a communist party afterall (or Saddam was the part of a communist party, sorry, this escapes me). My point is, Saddam just doesn't like overly religious people and it is a mask that he mentions God all so often --- simple psychology towards religious people. In his state, no public show of religion was to be tolerated, you may have not worn religious adornment (for example Christian crosses etc.) in public. This regarded all religions; however, inside a church or temple you could do whatever you wanted. Osama probably can't stand Saddam at all, so I wouldn't expect him to keep contact with such a "faithless damned pagan" Saddam is.
>2) I had not heard of the claim that al qaeda - under whatever spelling - was not the name of Bin Laden's organization. What is it really. Are we really talking about the distinction between calling members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints "Mormons" (i.e. it's not the official name, but they don't really object to the name except in certain contexts), or is there some more substantive objection to this distinction you have made?
Osama and the other "fellas" never call it "The Foundation", which is what Al Quaeda means. I can't recall the name they use, by heart, though.