Samir Amin on Islam

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 9:39 AM -0600 11/30/02, Peter K. wrote:
>  >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.

What Americans need to know is how Saudi elites and the Pakistani 
security establishment got into power, stay in power, and manage to 
finance Islamic fundamentalists elsewhere.
-- 
Yoshie

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