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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Druss who wrote (7955)	9/24/2001 3:59:02 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 28931

Terrorism breeds in gap between old, new values By Bill Bishop American-Statesman Staff Sunday, September 23, 2001 austin360.com In 1997, California sociologist Manuel Castells wrote that radical Islamic fundamentalism grew out of the failures of economic modernization in Muslim countries in the 1970s and '80s. Nations formed, but economies stagnated. Even oil-rich states failed to develop their economies. When these new nations failed to produce the benefits of economic growth, the result was a surge of religious "traditionalism," Castells wrote. It was a fundamentalist revolution against the failures of capitalism, socialism and Arab nationalism, and it has led to violence, even self-destruction. In 1995, Islamic scholar Fahad Khosrokhavar wrote that as individuals realized they were denied the economic benefits of the global economy, "violence becomes the only form of self-affirmation. . . . The exclusion from modernity takes a religious meaning: Thus, self-immolation becomes the way to fight against exclusion." *