Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies by Ian Buruma
Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies by Ian Buruma

Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies

Apr 8, 2004

Buruma points out that the hatred animating Islamic radicals conforms to the classic counter-Enlightenment vision of Western society as rootless, timid, and soulless.

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