"There has been so massive and calculatedly aggressive an attack on the contemporary societies of the Arab and Muslim for their backwardness, lack of democracy, and abrogation of women’s rights that we simply forget that such notions as modernity, enlightenment, and democracy are by no means simple and agreed-upon concepts that one either does or does not find, like Easter eggs in a living room."
-Edward Said, 25th anniversary Preface of Orientalism.Tagged as: Edward Said. Orientalism. Muslims. Arabs. Islam.
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