Jonathan Foreman writes: The failure to understand the role of ideology is one of imagination as well as education. Very few of those who make government policy or write about home-grown terrorism seem able to escape the limitations of what used to be called “bourgeois” experience. They assume that anyone willing to become an Islamist terrorist must perforce be materially deprived, or traumatized by the experience of prejudice, or provoked to murderous fury by oppression abroad…Their understanding is an understanding only of themselves, not of the people who want to kill them. - Commentary
Commentary Magazine: How the West is blind to ideology
Jonathan Foreman writes: The failure to understand the role of ideology is one of imagination as well as education. Very few of those who make government policy or write about home-grown terrorism seem able to escape the limitations of what used to be called “bourgeois” experience. They assume that anyone willing to become an Islamist terrorist must perforce be materially deprived, or traumatized by the experience of prejudice, or provoked to murderous fury by oppression abroad…Their understanding is an understanding only of themselves, not of the people who want to kill them. - Commentary
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