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...inequality endemic in most of the Middle East. But no effort at redress by the West will work unless the Muslim world as a whole rethinks its relation to modernity. Why is it that Africa, though poorer and more hurt by the West, did not create a terrorist phenomenon? Why did Latin America export its "purest" terrorist product, Carlos the Jackal, to the Middle East...
...don’t see it as earth-shaking,” says Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and minister in Memorial Church. “Harvard is a very traditional place, and it looks to its traditional constituents. The Jewish community at Harvard is a phenomenon of the mid-20th century...
...Muslim friend said to me last year as we talked about this phenomenon at Harvard, “We’re on the same team here. God will sort out whether Jesus was a prophet or God, but we’ve got people at this school who don’t know God loves them. There are people that don’t even think God exists, that God doesn’t have a plan for the world, and that don’t know they can enter into relationship with...
...common responses to calamity. When Hurricane Andrew hit Miami in 1992, there were tales of stockpiled bodies hidden by the government to prevent public hysteria. After the Challenger explosion, people swore they had seen crew members leave the space shuttle before takeoff. We are currently seized by the same phenomenon but of an unprecedented order of magnitude. "People are looking for certainty, and they don't care where they get it," says Gary Fine, a sociology professor at Northwestern University who specializes in the study of rumors. "They would rather know something for sure, even if that thing for sure...
Isn’t there something familiar about this phenomenon...