The moral-ethical dimension arises from the predictable tendency when acting on the problem, armed with a new technology, to apply to the label fundamentalist only to our ideological opponents, while failing to perceive the fundamentalism in ourselves. From the perspective of the Western mind, for instance, the tendency to equate fundamentalism exclusively with radical Islamism is too tempting. But how much less fundamentalist than an Osama bin Laden is a nation of capitalist ideologues carpet bombing civilian urban areas in Laos, Cambodia and North Korea? (*and the rest!) The jihadists obsession with defending his Islamic ideological world view which leads him to perpetrate and justify such barbaric acts as the Woolwich murder (oh come on! and the full story on that is??) are of the same nature as the evangelical obsession with spreading the pseudo-religious ideology of capitalism which led to such horrendous crimes as the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians in four years of carpet bombing operations by the Nixon administration caught in a vice grip of anti-communist paranoia. (and lets not forget Bush and Obama and Iraq, Libya, etc) Read more: digitaljournal/article/351347#ixzz2xRDfCH2p
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 09:50:54 +0000