Word: totalitarianisms
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...self-subverted. The world might learn to be more alert to another kind, the arrogance of powerlessness--which may take the form of aggressive exaltation suffused with God's righteous, annihilating power. What is more arrogant than a vocabulary of "infidel," "jihad" and "fatwa"? More arrogant than the totalitarian conceit that Allah obliges "the faithful" to wage vicious holy war against the airplanes and office buildings of the ungodly? What is more arrogant, or in worse taste, than hijack heroes' sleazy dreams of paradise, with 72 virgins at the disposal of each "martyr...
...self-subverted. The world might learn to be more alert to another kind, the arrogance of powerlessness - which may take the form of aggressive exaltation suffused with God's righteous, annihilating power. What is more arrogant than a vocabulary of "infidel," "jihad" and "fatwa"? More arrogant than the totalitarian conceit that Allah obliges "the faithful" to wage vicious holy war against the airplanes and office buildings of the ungodly? What is more arrogant, or in worse taste, than hijack heroes' sleazy dreams of paradise, with 72 virgins at the disposal of each "martyr...
...totalitarian fundamentalists of the Taliban head for the hills under the triple assault of U.S. warplanes, Northern Alliance advances and the treachery of erstwhile allies, the stage is being set less for a democratic renaissance than for a new round of horse-trading among the hard men. And the emphasis here is definitely on men - in all the reporting you've read or watched from Afghanistan in the past six weeks, how many women's voices have you heard? Probably none, because the Northern Alliance appear to share the Taliban's enthusiasm for the idea that women are seen (barely...
...Sunday the U.S. could not stop the Alliance seizing the capital because it did not have sufficient troops on the ground to do that - but there was no question of the desirability of keeping them out. Foreign observers agree that the one thing Kabul residents fear more than the totalitarian Taliban is the return of the Northern Alliance - tens of thousands of civilians died there in the crossfire of factional battles the last time elements of the Alliance controlled the capital. Fear of the Northern Alliance storming the capital might actually rally Pashtuns behind the Taliban, potentially creating a protracted...
...understanding that he puts forward is that of the Muslim mainstream. In doing so, he uses the example of an extremist in New York (whom the Muslim community itself has intensely criticized for his comments) and a favorable review of a book by the Defense Minister of a totalitarian secular government (Syria) that bombed and killed 20,000 of its civilians because their Muslim faith asked them to protest the government’s tyranny. Might as well define America by Jerry Falwell and David Duke. The fact that the favorable book review was published in a respectable mainstream newspaper...