Terrorismo muçulmano -
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, 15 Julho 2005, NYT
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Europe is not a melting pot and has never adequately integrated its Muslim minorities, who (...) often find themselves "cut off from their country, language and culture of origin" without being assimilated into Europe, making them easy prey for peddlers of a new jihadist identity.
Also at work is Sunni Islam's struggle with modernity. Islam has a long tradition of tolerating other religions, but only on the basis of the supremacy of Islam, not equality with Islam. Islam's self-identity is that it is the authentic and ideal expression of monotheism. Muslims are raised with the view that Islam is God 3.0, Christianity is God 2.0, Judaism is God 1.0, and Hinduism is God 0.0.
Part of what seems to be going on with these young Muslim males is that they are, on the one hand, tempted by Western society, and ashamed of being tempted.
On the other hand, they are humiliated by Western society because while Sunni Islamic civilization is supposed to be superior, its decision to ban the reform and reinterpretation of Islam since the 12th century has choked the spirit of innovation out of Muslim lands, and left the Islamic world less powerful, less economically developed, less technically advanced than God 2.0, 1.0 and 0.0.
"Some of these young Muslim men are tempted by a civilization they consider morally inferior, and they are humiliated by the fact that, while having been taught their faith is supreme, other civilizations seem to be doing much better," said Raymond Stock, the Cairo-based biographer and translator of Naguib Mahfouz. "When the inner conflict becomes too great, some are turned by recruiters to seek the sick prestige of 'martyrdom' by fighting the allegedly unjust occupation of Muslim lands and the 'decadence' in our own." "
posted by ana at 2:41 da tarde
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Na reason do mês passado, vinha um artigo de opinião que dizia que o Friedman era o gajo que tinha elevado o jornalismo por cliché ao nível de arte (God 2.0 é muito bom, diga-se).
Na maioria dos casos, os grupos extremistas nascem por geração espontânea (na Europa, obviamente na palestina há outras estruturas). Não há quase recrutamento, antes pelo contrário, estes grupos auto-gerados é que procuram encontrar mentores entre os profissionais (al-qaedas, etc). Muitos deles, metem-se pura e simplesmente num avião e vão para o Paquistão ou outro país assim (desde a invasão que o Iraque está também na moda). Destes, a maioria, morre estupidamente por lá a brincar aos terroristas.
ok, nascem por geração espontânea porquê?
não percebi se concordas com ele ou não.
Segundo o Economist, a visão que o Friedman apresenta é errada e eu acho o Economist mais fiável que os cronistas do NYT (o próprio NYT, que já é o que é, diz que os cronistas não estão submetidos a controlo editorial, mas escrevem o que querem).
O artigo é pago, por isso vou citar aqui o essencial:
[The group that murdered van Gogh] began as a group of second- or third-generation Dutch Muslims, mostly male and in their late teens or early 20s, who became discontented with their country and surfed the internet for ideas.
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In Britain, too, security services have concluded that these days, connections between local youths and foreign godfathers are usually formed at the youths' behest. To a surprising extent, the onus is on individual zealots (or groups of them) to find mentors. Al-Qaeda does not actively seek recruits for the jihadist cause.
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Frequently, a young Muslim man falls out of mainstream society, becoming alienated both from his parents and from the “stuffy” Islamic culture in which he was brought up. He may become more devout, but the reverse is more likely. He turns to drink, drugs and petty crime before seeing a “solution” to his problems—and the world's—in radical Islam.
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