Why is there no anti war movement in the US? Also: the US, that wages war against fundamentalism, is considered internationally by many to be the largest and most powerful fundamentalist country of our time.
Tariq Ali ONE: For a Movement Against the Wars in the Middle East This is an eloquent analysis of the wars in Iraq and Palestine and the reasons for the absence of an anti war movement in the US.
Tariq Ali TWO: On Religious Fundamentalism Part TWO begins with a brief story of Sicily after the Norman conquest. The Normans kept Arabic advisors and maintained the Arab language. Sicily had been under Arab rule for almost 250 years. Tariq Ali then goes on to critique fundamentalism of any kind and points to the fact that Europe regards the US to be the largest and most powerful fundamentalist country of our time.
Writer, journalist and film-maker Tariq Ali came to Berkeley at the end of April 2005. Tariq Ali was born in Pakistan in 1943. Educated at Oxford, he became involved with the movement against the war on Vietnam. He is also a world renowned scholar on the history and culture of Islam. Tariq Ali is editorial director of Verso books and editor and board member of the New Left Review. Tariq Aliâ
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