Alice Roddy
2008-05-12 10:13:34
DSieve wrote: I really can’t agree that free trade and exporting of Americana (books, movies, etc.) to nations with Islamic fundamentalists is going to motivate radicals to suicide attacks as much as occupation of their holy lands.
When dealing with very different cultures, we err when we judge their actions by our values. Muslims take their religion seriously and are appalled by the culture we export. We in the West are People of the Book, People with Revealed Scripture in old and new Testament, but we don’t present ourselves as aspiring to live up to it. Rather, we profane it.
I lived in Afghanistan in the 1960s and do believe that our cultural export is a significant factor in the venomous anger of Islamists.
