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...have taken in life mirror the choices that a polarized Pakistan must also make. Should the nation move forward and be part of the modern world? Or will it seek answers from the past and retreat into a rigid interpretation of Islam? Can it do both? The sometimes violent clash between progressive moderates and dogmatic hard-liners is increasingly defining Pakistan?when it should be the resolution of that conflict that defines it instead...
...Bold words. But casting the war on terrorism as a clash between democracy and authoritarianism is a little misleading - even dangerous. The anti-terror effort is an effort to rally humanity against cruelty, civilization against barbarism, extremism against moderation. But democracy doesn't quite make it into the binary oppositions involved in this fight. For one thing, none of the three "existing" governments the President cited are democracies - Jordan and Saudi Arabia are monarchies, whose leaders are chosen by heredity rather than by an electorate, while Egypt holds tightly-controlled elections from which the most popular opposition party is banned...
...rooted only in ignorance, in Pakistan, a member of an Islamic militant organization is as likely to be educated and urbane - an engineer, a computer scientist, a military officer or a businessman. Many tried living in America or Europe and slunk back home, shocked and disturbed by the clash of Western culture and values with their own. Alienated, they fall back on Islam to regain their identity...
...Columnists and pundits alike declare that clashing values and narratives are at the root of this conflict. President Bushs first address to the nation stated that it was because America is the brightest beacon for freedom and staunchest advocate for individual liberties that it was attacked. But if it is values and narratives that clash, the eight students profess that they are not Judeo-Christian values clashing with Islamic ones...
Heim and Murphy are not shy about using words or taking positions that are bound to generate controversy. Take the term catfight, which they say refers to "the incontrovertible truth" that when women work together, they often clash. Catfights include spreading malicious gossip and rumors, divulging secrets and surreptitiously attacking one another in the presence of others, particularly bosses. In fact, the book was originally titled From Catfights to Colleagues until the authors ran into resistance to the C word. "Men and women are not the same," says Murphy. "We're different biologically, and we're different in personal relationships...