En TCS, Arnold Kling nos plantea una visión sobre el mundo musulmán y sus minoritarios grupos terroristas. Compara la situación con la de los indios Pikunis.
It is possible that the culture of the world Muslim community, including its religious and secular institutions, simply is not yet equipped to confront the radicals in the way that Thomas Friedman and the rest of us might wish. A lack of social capital, or what James Bennett calls "civil society," means that the Muslim community's circuits are overloaded. Like the Native Americans living in Montana in 1870, Muslims are confronted with too much change happening too quickly.
We should not be tolerant or passive in response to terrorism. We should continue to pursue, incarcerate, and kill terrorists -- without apologies or mindless insinuations. As to the Muslims who are not active terrorists, we should be particularly hard on those who voice moderation in Western-style press conferences but who preach hatred when they think that no one from the West is watching.
En este otro artículo, Lee Harris introduce el concepto del modelo del feudo de sangre para explicar esta guerra terrorista:
In the blood feud, unlike war, you have no interest in bringing your enemy to his knees. You are not looking for your enemy to surrender to you; you are simply interested in killing some of his people in revenge for past injuries, real or imaginary -- nor does it matter in the least whether the people you kill today were the ones guilty of the past injuries that you claim to be avenging. In a blood feud, every member of the enemy tribe is a perfectly valid target for revenge. What is important is that some of their guys must be killed -- not necessarily anyone of any standing in their community. Just kill someone on the other side, and you have done what the logic of the blood feud commands you to do.
In the blood feud there is no concept of decisive victory because there is no desire to end the blood feud. Rather the blood feud functions as a permanent "ethical" institution -- it is the way of life for those who participate in it; it is how they keep score and how they maintain their own rights and privileges. You don't feud to win, you feud to keep your enemy from winning -- and that is why the anthropologist of the Bedouin feud, Emrys Peters, has written the disturbing words: The feud is eternal.
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EL ENVIDIABLE ESPÍRITU ANGLOSAJÓN.
Martina
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Terror en Londres
Señor Director:
“Fuimos objeto de bárbaros ataques de unos sinvergüenzas que no tienen respeto a la dignidad del valor de la vida humana. Como ex residente argentino, británico, y orgulloso de serlo, y como londinense orgulloso de su ciudad, me siento indignado de que esto haya ocurrido en nuestro país y en nuestra ciudad.
“Gran Bretaña es el país en Europa en el cual las religiones conviven armoniosamente, el que tiene la mejor inserción de gente de otras razas, raíces, religiones, comunidades e inmigrantes. Es el país más tolerante del mundo. Nuestra ciudad de Londres es un ejemplo para el mundo sobre cómo una ciudad multiétnica debería organizarse para vivir en paz y armonía.
“Estos sinvergüenzas mataron musulmanes, judíos, cristianos, gente joven, gente mayor, laboristas, conservadores, gente que apoyaba la guerra en Irak y gente que no, es decir, sin discriminación.
“Este país siempre espera a los inmigrantes con los brazos abiertos y tenemos una sociedad ejemplar. Queremos decir que repudiamos este ataque a la dignidad de nuestra ciudad y comunicar que no vamos a permitir que altere nuestra tolerancia, nuestra manera de vivir y organizar nuestra ciudad y país.
“Queremos a Londres y queremos a Gran Bretaña. Que viva la paz y la tolerancia. ¡Viva Londres!”
Lee Faulkner
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