Terror Everywhere, Humanity Nowhere

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   Unlike some delirious experts, we must remind ourselves that these attacks do not target the West or France �for what they are,� as Daniel Pipes once suggested. Two-bit editorial writers�along with respected scholars such as Jean-Pierre Filiu�nevertheless propagated this idea after Friday's attacks. It allows the sycophants of �liberal democracy,� competitive capitalism, and Western self-righteousness to find shelter in the comfort of a naive essentialism. Thus, there is no reason for further debates: we are so happy, free, and powerful that they have no choice but to envy and hate us at the same time, which leads these supposed experts to reproduce the outdated schema of the �clash of civilizations.� The fact that some governments have regularly brought death and destruction all over the world by perpetrating police bombing and imprecise drone strikes has nothing to do with this resentment.

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Thomas Serres recently defended his dissertation in Political Science from the EHESS (�cole des Hautes �tudes en Sciences Sociales), entitled "Le cartel pendant la crise: violences et perp�tuation de l'ordre dans l'Alg�rie contemporaine." He currently teaches at the Universit� Jean Monnet at Saint-�tienne.

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	Unlike some delirious experts, we must remind ourselves that these attacks do not target the West or France �for what they are,� as Daniel Pipes once suggested. Two-bit editorial writers�along with respected scholars such as Jean-Pierre Filiu�nevertheless propagated this idea after Friday's attacks. It allows the sycophants of �liberal democracy,� competitive capitalism, and Western self-righteousness to find shelter in the comfort of a naive essentialism. Thus, there is no reason for further debates: we are so happy, free, and powerful that they have no choice but to envy and hate us at the same time, which leads these supposed experts to reproduce the outdated schema of the �clash of civilizations.� The fact that some governments have regularly brought death and destruction all over the world by perpetrating police bombing and imprecise drone strikes has nothing to do with this resentment. Keep reading...... http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/23234/terror-everywhere-humanity-nowhere Thomas Serres recently defended his dissertation in Political Science from the EHESS (�cole des Hautes �tudes en Sciences Sociales), entitled "Le cartel pendant la crise: violences et perp�tuation de l'ordre dans l'Alg�rie contemporaine." He currently teaches at the Universit� Jean Monnet at Saint-�tienne.