[lit-ideas] Re: Five Years Ago
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:49:23 -0400
Here's Martin Amis, messing with those root causes. Note
that, as I am so often chided for doing on this List, Amis
can't resist putting US and Coalition wrongdoing in the
larger context. -EY
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Since then [9/11] the world has undergone a moral crash -
the spiritual equivalent, in its global depth and reach, of
the Great Depression of the Thirties. On our side,
extraordinary rendition, coercive psychological procedures,
enhanced interrogation techniques, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib,
Haditha, Mahmudiya, two wars, and tens of thousands of dead
bodies. All this should of course be soberly compared to the
feats of the opposed ideology, an ideology which, in its
most millennial form, conjures up the image of an abattoir
within a madhouse. I will spell this out, because it has not
been broadly assimilated. The most extreme Islamists want to
kill everyone on earth except the most extreme Islamists;
but every jihadi sees the need for eliminating all
non-Muslims, either by conversion or by execution. And we
now know what happens when Islamism gets its hands on an
army (Algeria) or on something resembling a nation state
(Sudan). In the first case, the result was fratricide, with
100,000 dead; in the second, following the Islamist coup in
1989, the result has been a kind of rolling genocide, and
the figure is perhaps two million. And it all goes back to
Greeley, Colorado, and to Sayyid Qutb.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1868732,00.html
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