Samir Amin on Islam

[Bradford DeLong]

>  >In Amin's view, it is the "submission of both the
>>political and ideological realms to the logic of the economic one"
>>that has stamped global culture as primarily capitalist. This thesis
>>has direct bearing on Amin's consequent argument that the forms of
>>ritualized traditionalism that are today frequently labelled Islamic
>>fundamentalism are neither simple holdovers from precapitalist
>>societies nor resistances to contemporary occidentalism.
>
>More concretely, Saudi elites and the Pakistani security 
>establishment have been financing Islamic
>fundamentalism. As for Israel and the Middle East, here's what 
>Hitchens - whom Yoshie compares to
>Thomas Friedman - recently had to say:
>
>"I hate and despise Hezbollah and Palestinian suicide-murderers, as 
>they ought to be called, but
>they'd have to work day and night for years to equal the total of 
>civilians killed in Lebanon alone,
>or by Sharon alone. Lebanese and Palestinian irregulars are, by the 
>way, entitled by international
>law to resist foreign occupation that has been internationally 
>condemned. Fact..."

By killing nurses? If one is going to talk about international law, 
one should also talk about jus in bello...

Brad DeLong