Posted on 08/22/2006 12:40:52 PM PDT by laissez- faire
White guilt in the West -- especially in Europe and on the American left -- confuses all this by seeing Islamic extremism as a response to oppression. The West is so terrified of being charged with its old sins of racism, imperialism and colonialism that it makes oppression an automatic prism on the non-Western world, a politeness. But Islamic extremists don't hate the West because they are oppressed by it. They hate it precisely because the end of oppression and colonialism -- not their continuance -- forced the Muslim world to compete with the West. Less oppression, not more, opened this world to the sense of defeat that turned into extremism.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
They hate us because our system, including our system of religion, shows their system to be a loser.
Read the article. They hate us because we are not Muslim. It is our duty to all die for the global caliphate.
BTTT
Glad you posted this. Steele is top notch:
"Islamic extremists don't hate the West because they are oppressed by it. They hate it precisely because the end of oppression and colonialism -- not their continuance -- forced the Muslim world to compete with the West.
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Islamic extremism is the saber-rattling of an inferiority complex."
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