Western thinkers must begin to recognize the difference between Islamism and Islam, or we are headed toward an ideologically defined battle with one quarter of humanity. That’s the entire point of Newsweek’s Is It Islamic or Islamist? I’ll add “jihad” and “Jihadism” to the mix. The political or social philosophies of Islamism and Jihadism (note [...]
[22 Oct 2010]
A less polite me would say “Really, Thom Friedman? Just STFU because your latest column is the biggest load of BS on the internet this week.” So thank you Glenn Greenwald for taking Friedman to task: In a very rare moment of candor for this rank war-loving propagandist, he announced very clearly the real purpose [...]
[29 Nov 2009]
It was the most successful form of colonialism: the colonized mind identified completely with the colonizer. The Javanese had held out for centuries, but finally they had lost. Their idea of there being many paths to God, none better than the other, had broken under the weight of the orthodox Arab injunction about the one [...]
[16 Nov 2009]