SAID on the tendency to demonize Islam (tags)
" . . . why not instead see parallels, admittedly less spectacular in their destructiveness, for Osama bin Laden and his followers in cults like the Branch Davidians or the disciples of the Rev. Jim Jones at Guyana or the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo?" says EDWARD W. SAID in this Nation article which essentially updates his thesis originally presented in Culture and Imperialism. Why do western foreign policy 'experts' insist that Islam is the new Soviet Union?