more on Islamism as 'new social movement'

[Gordon Fitch]

James Heartfield:
> 
> From an admittedly suspect source
> 
> "In a brilliantly illuminating and arrestingly readable analysis, 
> Ruthven demonstrates the close affinities between radical Islamist 
> thought and the vanguard of modernist and postmodern thinking in the 
> West. The inspiration for Qutb's thought is not so much the Koran, but 
> the current of western philosophy embodied in thinkers such as 
> Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Heidegger. Qutb's thought -- the blueprint 
> for all subsequent radical Islamist political theology -- is as much a 
> response to 20th-century Europe's experience of "the death of God" as to 
> anything in the Islamic tradition. Qutbism is in no way traditional. 
> Like all fundamentalist ideology, it is unmistakeably modern."
> 
> A Fury For God: The Islamist Attack on America by Malise Ruthven, 
> Granta, £15, 315pp, reviewed by John Gray, Independent, 27 July 2002
> http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/story.jsp?story=318696

So if Marxism is the West, and Islamism is the West, and
postmodernism and modernism are the West, and of course
liberalism and capitalism are the West, what is the 
not-West?