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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (13692)1/19/2002 3:32:50 PM
From: Terry Maloney  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
DJ, the author's paradigm of Jihad vs McWorld was new when he coined the phrase some 10 years ago. <g>

That was in an Atlantic article, but this 'refresher' is from the Nation, and yes, the passage you re-translated survived it's journey intact:

"It is the new democratic realist who sees that if the only choice we have is between the mullahs and the mall, between the hegemony of religious absolutism and the hegemony of market determinism, neither liberty nor the human spirit is likely to flourish. As we face up to the costs both of fundamentalist terrorism and of fighting it, must we not ask ourselves how it is that when we see religion colonize every other realm of human life we call it theocracy and turn up our noses at the odor of tyranny; and when we see politics colonize every other realm of human life we call it absolutism and tremble at the prospect of totalitarianism; but when we see market relations and commercial consumerism try to colonize every other realm of human life we call it liberty and celebrate its triumph? There are too many John Walkers who begin by seeking a refuge from the aggressive secularist materialism of their suburban lives and end up slipping into someone else's dark conspiracy to rid the earth of materialism's infidels. If such men are impoverished and without hope as well, they become prime recruits for jihad."

thenation.com

Best,
Terry
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