SOC 4010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The True Believer, Extremists (Comics), White Guilt
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Extremist competition extremist ideologies compete for disaffected intellectuals often undermine belief systems which leads to upheaval and the rise of the fanatic with a new one! -islamic extremism comes after failures of communism and pan-arab nationalism (fascism is still respected) -for extremism to arise now for muslims, it has to be international in appeal and give intensity and overcome effects of modernization. -how extremists condemn the present and want to throw away their self; there is no extremist like a convert. - white guilt like an original sin paralyzes europe and it is conquered by unarmed migrants. -after communism"s fall, it is a fight between western. People don"t even want to know, sweden criminalizes criticism of its immigration laws. - belgian man joins isis is an immigrant who gained its citizenship but never considered himself belgian. -terms orientalism and islamophobia silences criticism of muslim cultures while enabling criticism of.