On Demographics and Meaning: Part V
Religion • April 2009 • Views: 298
If the West is suffering from neurasthenia, it might be thought that (parts of) the Islamic world are suffering from defensive mania. The Islamists present themselves as courageous and indomitable warriors, defending Islam from the predations and immorality of the Western infidels. Yet their behavior and the underlying reality suggest that their protestations and violent acting out are defensive in the psychological sense, if not in the geopolitical sense.