This:
“MJT: You’re saying that when we say “democracy” they hear liberalism.
Oren: When we say “democracy” they see Western modernity. And they don’t want it.
MJT: Some of them do, but…
Oren: They don’t want to pay the price for it. And the price is that their kids are going to marry whomever they want, their kids are going to marry people of different religions, of different colors, their wives are going to drive cars and go to work and maybe their wives will go out with other men before they get married. They don’t want that.”
Made me think of this:
“In this first in a series of essays on Muslim cousin-marriage, I want to begin to make the case that Muslim kinship structure is an unexamined key to the war on terror. While the character of Islam itself is unquestionably one of the critical forces driving our global conflict, the nature of Islamic kinship and social structure is at least as important a factor – although this latter cluster of issues has received relatively little attention in public debate. Understanding the role of Middle Eastern kinship and social structure in driving the war not only throws light on the weaknesses of arguments like D’Souza’s, it may also help us devise a new long-term strategy for victory in the war on terror.”
Kurtz, Marriage and the Terror War, NRO
