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On the recordApril 19, 1994
there is one point that he made, I think it is also very appropriate to say, that the Moslems of Bosnia are secular Moslems, and what this dose is it just proves the point, unfortunately, of madmen like Saddam Hussein and others who say, ``Look at the West; they won't defend Moslems even when they're secular, when they're wronged,'' and the point that this ultimately leads to an increase in Moslem fundamentalism I think is a very, very important point because it sends the absolute wrong message that we ought to be sending to the Middle East and to the part of the world, and it again proves the point of all the people like Saddam Hussein, Iran and Iraq, who want to whip up hatred against the West, who say that the West by its very nature is anti-Moslem. This just to them proves their point. So again the implications are far broader than simply the implications in Bosnia, and I think that is a very excellent point to mention.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Discussing the implications of Western inaction in Bosnia on Muslim fundamentalism.

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