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Michael Young on 9/11 and Arab Opinion

There really is no such thing as an umma, or encompassing Islamic polity capable of restoring the caliphate. Why? Reason's man in Lebanon offers Muslim indifference to Muslim suffering as one explanation:

The Arab inability, or refusal, to take 9/11 on its own terms—as a monumental crime against humanity whose aim was to be a monumental crime against humanity—was revealing. This failure to react to a crime as a crime rather than as an extension of one's own anger or atavism would later be echoed in Arab apathy regarding the mass graves found in Iraq after Saddam Hussein's downfall; in the shocking aptitude of predominantly Sunni Muslim Arab publics to look the other way when faced with the relentless murder of Iraqi Shiites by foreign Islamists; and during the Lebanese conflict in Arab ardor for Hezbollah, with no concern shown for how the group's pointless provocation of Israel had led to the deaths of around 1,000 civilians, traumatized a society, and reversed years of development in Lebanon.

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