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ulation.202 They broadcast their revolutionary propaganda to the
Moslem inhabitants of the USSR.203 They financed the Palestinian
Hamas, which called for the worldwide annihilation of Jews. They
incited unrest among Moslem populations a continent away in
Malaysia. They helped the Islamic Moro National Liberation Front
seize control of thirteen provinces in the largely Catholic Philippines.204
And by the mid-90's they were backing African warlords like Somalia's
Mohamed Farah Aydid in what pro-Islamic French journalist Thierry
Lalevée called a vigorous "strategy for encirclement of Africa and the
Middle East."205
The Iranian Ayatollah and the Gallic Vercingetorix both fought
for position at the feeding trough like chickens in a barnyard. Both
gathered followers to their cause. And both pulled together a hungry
superorganism driven by a meme. But these masters of oratory did not
bring a lump to the throat and a tear to the eye by comparing
themselves to farmyard beasts. Far from it. They rallied their
supporters with three misleading words disguised by moral might.
Those words: freedom, peace and justice!
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