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carpetbagger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 02:21 PM
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1. I agree, but not with his blanket statement.
Gandhi's movement, as well as King's movement, was predicated upon eventually making the responsible party disgusted with their acts, or the acts done in their names. It works better with democratic goverments, places with free press, and the like.

Gandhi would have been shot. There were, in fact, good numbers of clerics who, over the years, attempted without violence to defy Hussein. They didn't succeed at all.

There are, however, places in the Muslim world where Gandhi's methods can work well. I think Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are probably the two places where nonviolent protest for change could work.
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