>That this movement has arisen in the Islamic world should come as no
>surprise. For it is in the Islamic world and sub-Saharan Africa (much of
>which, of course, is Muslim) where the experience of the last 10 years has
>been of worsening economic misery and social breakdown. The fact that in
>these two parts of the world, globalization was experienced quite literally
>as a catastrophe, whereas not just in the West, but in East Asia, Latin
>America and India, the new economic order seemed to hold the promise of
>prosperity, largely explains why retrograde and barbaric tendencies like
>that of a bin Laden have such authority.
This sounds dangerously like explanation. Nathan, is David Rieff an apologist for terror too?
Doug