The Muslim world and the West: the roots of conflict.

From: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

TO SAY THAT AN EFFECTIVE CURE of a disease requires a sound diagnosis is to state the obvious. Yet, in the face of the 9/11 plague, and of the scourge of terrorism in general, the Bush administration has utterly failed to shed any light on some of the submerged factors that might have provoked such heinous attacks. Instead, the simplistic and politically expedient explanations such as "good vs. evil," or "the clash of civilizations," or the "Islamic incompatibility with the modern world" have shed more heat than light on the issue.

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