more on Islamism as 'new social movement'

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 8:00 AM -0500 11/15/02, Gordon Fitch wrote:
>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?

"Il n'y a pas de hors-texte"?
-- 
Yoshie

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