Against the West: Islamic Radicals Hate Us for Who We Are, Not What We Do Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit (New York: Penguin, 2004), 160 pp. "Why do they hate us?" This plaintive question has been asked so many times since 9/11 that it has become almost cliché-like. What possessed educated young Arab men to turn civilian airliners into cruise missiles to be crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon on the banks of the Potomac River? In response, some claim that...