Dear Anwar,

> To address all this. I don't know if simplicity is a tenet of Islam,
> though devotion to God is.

Thank you for this insight. This is interesting to me.

>  As for technology personally I feel like
> it should be truly beneficial and not a vanity. It should contribute
to
> essential skills, reinforce/or educate on whatever morality one
engenders
>

What is so wonderful - and unique in all history - about the United
States is that it allows for the last four words you've written above.
If you truly understand the meaning of those four words, you will
realize that the first sentence you've written here doesn't allow for
the second one. In other words, it's a vanity for you to dictate what is
a moral use of technology and what is not.

> . As a media of knolwedge and wholistic betterment I
> support technology. But as a media for vanity, unjust propaganda,
> time-wasting through vain entertainment, I do not support technology.

In the United States, we make sure that one person does not have the
right to tell another what is a waste of time and what is not. If I love
Hollywood and MTV it is my right to watch these. You have no right to
impose your religion or morals on me.

This, precisely this, is what this war is all about, Anwar.

Love Liza