Marion Kind

The West and America in particular has come to believe that it’s history forms the narrative of the whole world. It does not. And so there is a lot of talk these days amongst the westerners and the westernized about how the Muslim World needs to undergo its “Reformation”. It will be bloody, goes the reasoning, but the forces of Progress (with our help, guidance and persistence), will win in the end. This is utterly, tragically and fantastically wrong. It makes no attempt at getting...

Sometime in early 2006, we the groggy and addled American public awakened to find ourselves occupied by the potentates of an alien and monolithic faith. During our twenty-plus years of semi-consciousness we had allowed the Mullahs of Mega-Capitalism, the Neo-cons, to seize the Empire. Having been threatened and bamboozled and bribed into collaboration, we now want to pretend that it never happened. We imagine that hardened Fascists are merely cheap swindlers who when confronted with their...