South Asia's cure to Moslem fundamentalism:
High-skilled immigrants
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KNOWLEDGE GAPS
The Tug of War for Asia's Best Brains
Companies and governments risk losing the global contest for IT talent--a contest that may determine the winners of the 21st-century economy. It isn't just about salaries and education; liberal new attitudes to immigration are needed too
By Nayan Chanda/SINGAPORE, BANGALORE and HONG KONG
Issue cover-dated November 9, 2000
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Note, however, that religious fanaticism is not an Islamic exclusive: Israel has also turned into a sort of theocracy whose government is partly taken over by far-rightist "rabbis" whereas the Catholic Church has its own "stormtroopers" like Opus Dei, Knights of Malta, and several other "neo-Templars" with fascistic leanings.... I think the issue with Islam is that most Islamic countries/communities belong to the (under-)developing world, hence Islam gets geared to sociopolitical claims. In the West, religious fanaticism is essentially a bourgeois agenda whereby the (upper) middle class purport to be the bulwark of the so-called western values (as epitomized by the IIIrd Reich 60 years ago....) against eastern obscurantism.
Anyway, it was to be expected that, following the demise of Marxism-Leninism, the destitute were left with their religious legacies as their only leverage on improving their situation --cf the (Christian) Liberation Movement in South America, Lamaism in Tibet, and Islam elsewhere.... |
