[lbo-talk] Oh! Bitchery!

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Sat Dec 17 06:08:53 PST 2011


Max writes: ‘situating all these conflicts in people getting crazy from religion is a profoundly reactionary (and lazy) way of thinking.’

In fairness to the 9/11 bombers (and the 7/7 bombers) they thought that what they were doing was religiously motivated. Of course you can ignore their views and explain their actions in terms of some other goal, attributing to them some kind of false consciousness, but that only shows an essential intolerance – or perhaps indifference – to the dafter ideals of Al Qaida and its supporters.



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