Re: [xmca] There is hope yet. Starbucks comes to Mecca.

From: deborah downing-wilson (ddowningw@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 08 2007 - 16:16:10 PST

Utlimately the real enemy of
fundamentalisms (political, religious or otherwise) is consumerism.

Interesting!

The "powers that be" certainly must agree with you - the malls in Saudi
Arabia are heavily patrolled by the mutawah and seem far from secular. I
have trouble seeing beyond a captive population of wealthy fundamentalist
Muslims - where some of their own have brought in a highly selected sampling
from the world's market. I had never looked at the consumerism, in itself,
as undermining the fundamentalist message, but those products that increase
exposure to other worlds must have an impact - the most benign seeming
purchases can lead down dangerous paths.

Thanks for posting this link.

Deb

On 3/8/07, JAG <joe.glick@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For me it is both comic and tragic. Utlimately the real enemy of
> fundamentalisms (political, religious or otherwise) is consumerism.
> There is no victory anywhere - there is just the possibilty that
> things that are now deathly serious become postmodernly curious. .
>
> On 3/8/07, deborah downing-wilson <ddowningw@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hope for....?
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> > On 3/8/07, JAG <joe.glick@gmail.com> wrote:
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