Islam and the West: What Went Wrong and Why
NOVANEWS
This is a response to Bernard Lewis's "Islam and the West" and "What Went Wrong?"
By Amir Nour
Global Research
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born, now is the time of monsters” (Antonio Gramsci)
Introduction: Between “apparent” and “real” History
Alvin Toffler, one of the world’s leading futurists, is often quoted, and with good reason, as saying that the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.
In the same vein, in an interview given in 2014, Noam Chomsky was invited to comment on his book “Masters of Mankind”[2]—a collection of essays and lectures written between 1969 and 2013. Pointing out that the world has changed a great deal during that period, his int...