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To: SARMAN who wrote (278187)	6/15/2011 12:11:19 PM
From: Sdgla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

So you are saying that Jews should not exploit their plight anymore. Emerging victorious in every war with the Arab states from 1947 thru today resulted in the acquisition more land for Israel. The only exploitation was from the people that attacked and then lost. You are a product of that exploitation. Al-Azm has been hailed as one of the foremost Arab intellectuals of recent decades. Al-Azm’s studies of Islamic fundamentalism, just two months after the 1967 defeat he published an article titled “Modern Science and the Dangerous Relapse,” which correctly anticipated the return of Islamic political discourse in the Arab world. The defeat spelled the end of many Arabs’ belief in secular trends such as pan-Arab nationalism and socialism, and caused some to turn to religion as an explanatory and mobilizing agent instead. Al-Azm not only studied this phenomenon, but also criticized Arab regimes’ exploitation of mounting religious fervor as a way of deflecting attention away from their role in the defeat. He discussed this in his article “The Miracle of the Virgin’s Apparition and the Liquidation of the Traces of Aggression,” which focused on how the Egyptian government helped spread the rumor of the appearance of the Virgin Mary at a church in Egypt. Al-Azm has continued to write about fundamentalism in the post-11 September 2001 world. He argues that modern Islamic fundamentalism and Islamic politics are reactive, not constructive, in that they essentially reflect a religious response to ongoing Arab defeat and humiliation. Read the book sadman : Self Criticism After the Defeat