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>If we hadn't been up to our necks since WWI in imperialistic
>manipulations in the Muslim world, it seems probable to me the Muslim
>world in some collective fashion or other would have come to their own
>terms with any rise to power of fundamentalisms in their
>societies. After all these groups theaten the Muslim world's
>governments far more ominously than they threaten those in the
>West. In fact, from what I can tell by reading histories, the whole
>motivation for such religious fundamentalist groups arises directly
>out of the ground of western colonialism and imperialism. In this
>reading, Saudi Arabia and Wahabbe Islam was the direct product of the
>British empire and its great war hero and liberal, Sir Lawrence.
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The Arabs would agree. See "Cities of Salt" by Munif.
Joanna