Rather, young radicals perceive the problem to be the passivity and failure of their leadership. It is ironic then that the more the moderate leaders crow with condemnation, the more radicals they are likely to encourage. For a post-911 generation of Muslims, who resisted the expansion of the west’s military, cultural and technological influence in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq and Afghan wars, a seductive attitude arose that must be apprehended: the Muslim leader whose reaction is to police the excesses of this ongoing war – the figure of the angry, “radical” Muslim. This policing is now being visited on Muslim youth, who respond with a strong sense of betrayal that we need to understand, a sense of abandonment. In their binary view, the first question they ask is: “who are you to suddenly come out to fight against me, when you did not fight for me?”
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:32:23 +0000
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