Noted for future reference and discussion …
“The new men of the villages, who feel they have already lost so much, find their path blocked at every turn. Money, development, education have awakened them only to the knowledge that the world is not like their village, that the world is not their own. Their rage — the rage of pastoral people with limited skills, limited money, and a limited grasp of the world — is comprehensive. Now they have a weapon: Islam. It is their way of getting even with the world. It serves their grief, their feeling of inadequacy, their social rage and racial hate.”
— V.S. Naipaul
Among the Believers, p. 227.
More soon …
