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Article: Islam and the Greens. (War and War Hysteria).
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- Synthesis/Regeneration
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- September 22, 2002
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"Islam stays with the dream life of the masses, the eschatological imagination of the lowly and oppressed."
Norman O. Brown (1, p. 92)
The lines of thought I am attempting to synthesize in this article were stimulated by Patrick Eytchison's two pieces in the Winter 2002 issue (#27) of this magazine. Eytchison argues that to understand the motives of the ruling class's "war on terror," we have to see Islam as a geopolitical opponent of the dominant West, equal or greater in magnitude to the specter of communism, especially in light of the approaching peak of oil production. In general, he focuses on the more reactionary forms of Islam which have sustained ...