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The Dig: American Militarism w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj

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What's the Point of Islamist Politics?

"The left has always been deeply secular and understood kind of religion and its forms of violence as particularly pernicious and irrational," she says. "So they have the same problem, which is, oh, my, well, what are we going to do?" The rise of political Islam in certain parts of the world is related to U.S.-led decolonial post-colonialism, writes Julian Zelizer.

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