Values and Motivations of Islamic culture (Cover story, Time, Sept 13, 2004, Struggle for the soul of Islam)

Title: Values and Motivations of Islamic culture (Cover story, Time, Sept 13, 2004, Struggle for the soul of Islam)
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Values and Motivations of Islamic culture (Cover story, Time, Sept 13, 2004, Struggle for the soul of Islam)
What is the force, so strong yet so peremptory, that lurks behind the voluntary soul slavery of Islamic radicals? What makes the religious passion so superior as to flood, drown and suffocate human rationality? Questions like these can never be answered or analyzed by a five-page article; however, I will try to dig out the fragments of some possible explanations in light of the basic theories of value, motivation and culture. In some sense, the …showed first 75 words of 1688 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1688 total…and culture, I perceived reinforced ideas about this society being a successful "corporation". However, efficiency can be the worst enemy of democracy. In order to pursuit the utmost efficiency, one is at the verge of trading off and sacrificing the utmost individuality or freedom for dictatorship, which is at no fair price with efficiency. For this very reason, the Islamic culture may imminently need its moderate believers to rise with righteous rage against the machine.

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