Here's an interesting discourse a friend sent to me.............I don't have the foggiest idea who V.S. Naipaul is, but the answer is worth of reading over a couple of times.
V. S. Naipaul - In answer to the question: What do you think were the
causes of Sept. 11?
"It had no cause. Religious hate, religious motivation, was the primary
thing. I don't think it was because of American foreign policy. There is
a passage in one of Conrad's short stories of the East Indies where the
savage finds himself with his hands bare in the world, and he lets out a
howl of anger. I think that, in its essence, is what is happening. The
world is getting more and more out of reach of simple people who have only
religion. And the more they depend on religion, which of course solves
nothing, the more the world gets out of reach. The oil money of the 70's
gave the illusion that power had come to the Islamic world. It was as
though up there was a divine supermarket, and at last it had become open to
people in the Muslim world. They didn't understand that the goods that
gave them power, in the end, were made by another civilization. That was
intolerable to accept, and it remains intolerable."
Regards,
Knip |
