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All cultures are not equal
Malik, Kenan
http://www.kenanmalik.com/essays/anti-imperialism.htmlYear Published: 2002 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX7909 A common thread binds contemporary Western radicalism and fundamentalist Islam. On the surface the two seem poles apart: fundamentalists loathe Western decadence, Western radicals fear Islamic presumptions of certainty. But what unites the two is that both are rooted in contemporary nihilistic multiculturalism; both express, at best, ambivalence about, at worst outright rejection of, the ideas of modernity, universality, and progress; and both see no real alternative to Western power. Subject Headings |