Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern

May 18, 2005

Al Qaeda sees itself as an alternative to the modern world, but the ideas on which it draws are quintessentially modern. As Karl Kraus said of psychoanalysis: radical Islam is a symptom of the disease of which it pretends to be the cure.

— Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern, John Gray

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