On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 9:08 AM, James Heartfield < Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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