06-16-2006, 08:22 PM
I think they are only pandering to the islamics. It serves both the muslims and the west to equate "third world angst" or anti-colonialism with "muslim rebellion or aspirations". muslims become champions of the colonized dispossesed while the west gets to tar the indegenes as muslim material. south asian identity as originally constructed by state department is part of the same strategy. Meanwhile the very real distinction between pagan and abrahamic gets submerged.

