(June 3, 2013 at 7:38 am)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: I do agree, however, as an instrumentalist and a pragmatist the the behaviour of these two individuals specifically may have been triggered purely by the actions of the west in states like Iraq et al (again, we can't be sure, as nobody yet knows). But the ideological underpinnings behind their actions I think are much more expansive beyond tha (and I mean in a time based context).
I have close Asian friends and it's shocking to me how much they adopt the anti west rhetoric. I would say the problem isn't religious per se, but then I don't see the Islamic community as a faith community at all, and neither do those friends. It's more if a cultural identity, and there are huge dangers in cherry picking, compounded by the actual weakness of the leadership/ actual doctrine of Islam, if that is as it appears to be.
