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In an interview in 1986 Maxime Rodinson said: " Islamic fundamentalism is a temporary, transitory movement, but it can last another thirty or fifty years — I don’t know how long. Where fundamentalism isn’t in power it will continue to be an ideal, as long as the basic frustration and discontent persist that lead people to take extreme positions. You need long experience with clericalism to finally get fed up with it — look how much time it took in Europe! Islamic fundamentalists will continue to dominate the period for a long time to come."
How the National Front Changed France Read also France and Its War on Terror and Intellectuals From Left Bank to Left Behind: Where Have the Great Frenceh Thinkers Gone?
"We" are still striving to cvilize those " recalcitrant Arabs " and Muslims. Today we do it in a better way. Not only do we use better weapons, NGOs, monarchies as allies, etc, but "we" do it "democratically": we debate it, we vote for it and the public knows about it. Shock and Awe
Via Stathis Kouvelakis  After Tsipras's "historic" visit to Israël and his previous one to Egypt, now it's the turn for Egypt's dictator El Sissi to visit Athens. Tsipras has totally aligned himself with most reactionary forces in the Eastern Mediterranean. “Your visit inaugurates a new period of close cooperation between the two countries,” Tsipras told the Egyptian leader. “You have sincerely conveyed Egypt’s voice to our European friends,” said El-Sissi."