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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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