Walking in Muslim Shoes: Edward Said’s Covering Islam Helps Understand the Middle East
Sunday, June 1st, 2003“NEITHER SIDE COMMANDS REALITY SO TOTALLY AS TO DISREGARD THE OTHER.”
EDWARD SAID
On September 11, 2001 Islam was dramatically brought back into the forefront of American perception, starting a new war on terrorism. Though President Bush assured this was not a war on Islam, both sides at times have viewed it as such — a clash of civilizations, where raging Muslims hate and compete with the West, the supposed standard for enlightened modernity. Islam is seen as a threat to Christianity and the U.S., as an oppressive religion outside the known, rational world ‘we’ inhabit.
