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Old 11-15-2010, 12:19 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop View Post
I disagree. Those gadgets provide access to the internet (which exposes folks to different ideas). It's virtually impossible to block wide swaths of the internet forever.

Facebook contains just as much Islamic criticism as it did last May when various countries temporarily blocked it.

Global communication empowers the individual to question authority. The Internet is to the Muslim world what Gutenberg movable type was to Christian Europe.
Except that we're seeing a growth in terms of locally grown radicalization where middle and upper class Canadian's and American's with all of this wonderful access to the news services and internet are still willing to commit acts of terrorism.

Just because you have access to information, it doesn't make you smarter. Quite the opposite.
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