It's Not About Us: By: James Thomas Snyder Protests in the Middle East are about a power struggle in the

It's Not About Us

It's Not About Us: By: James Thomas Snyder Protests in the Middle East are about a power struggle in the

(with proper credit to Ross Douthat) – These protests were sparked by an American-produced video but ultimately this is about a power struggle in the Muslim world triggered by the democratic uprisings of the Arab Spring. Conservative and Islamist groups, finding themselves no longer on the vanguard , are fighting back , using the video to stoke and mobilize their base. They certainly didn’t need the video, as the Internet is strewn with anti-Islamist rocks for them to pick up and throw. This was just a particularly good one to use, hand-hewn to the purpose. It only means that they’re on the defensive, fighting back against a political tide that threatens to them. Unfortunately, the response in the West has been virtually all about us: that our peculiar Western freedoms have once again provoked the hair-trigger ire of over-sensitive Muslims, and that this conflagration whic...

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@strobie » 22 Oct '12, 5am
A superb piece — Islam and the West, a Positive Approach [link]
@richganske » 20 Oct '12, 9am
It's Not About Us [link] | America as "Fortinbras of Shakespeare’s Hamlet." Interesting analysis. Way-ahead... meh.
@jscottshipman » 19 Oct '12, 2pm
It's Not About Us [link] insightful post @smallwarsjournal
@DaveedGR » 19 Oct '12, 12pm
Snyder critiques "simplistic" views of protests in Muslim world, then offers scant evidence for his own interpretation. [link]
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@lindsey_bn » 19 Oct '12, 10am
It's not about us [link] It's post Arab Spring Islamic world internal. We're just a prop.
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