WSJ: Recent sociology of Kenya

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Dec 2 05:28:51 PST 2002


Michael Pollak wrote:
>
> [A nice picture of historical and social complexity. One side point: In
> the US, we never think there might be any downside to shutting down
> Islamic charities. But in fact shutting down lots of innocent ones can
> generate exactly the political resentment we shouldn't want to foster.]
>

We??? Not me anyhow. And how many Arab residents are there in the U.S. Do they fail to see a downside? How many non-Arabic muslims? Do they see a downside? Quakers? Mennonites?

Carrol



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