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Here We Go Again
Malik, Kenan
http://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/here-we-go-again/Date Written: 2012-09-14 Year Published: 2012 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX14523 One thing should be clear. The violence across the Muslim world in response to an American anti-Islamic film has nothing to do with that film. Yes, The Inocence of Muslims is a risibly crude diatribe against Islam, but the violence is being driven less by religious fury than by political calculation. In Libya, Egypt and elsewhere, the crisis is being fostered by hardline Islamists in an attempt to seize the political initiative in a period of transition and turmoil. The film is almost incidental to this process. The real struggle is not between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between different shades of Islamists, between hardline factions and more mainstream ones. Subject Headings |