The problem with Barber

Où la tension tendue partout dans le texte par l’allégorisation de l’antimodernisme ethnique sous la figure du « Jihad » arrive à son point de rupture, c.-à-d. à son explicite « libéral », plantant Barber dans sa place idéologique nette (la « démocratie », démocratisme) 207, dans le chapitre « Essential Jihad : Islam and Fundamentalism » :

Jihad has been a metaphor for anti-Western antiuniversalism struggle throughout this book. The question here is whether is more than just a metaphor in the Muslim culture that produced the term.

Poursuite naturelle : «  An empirical survey of existing government sources in Islamic nations certainly affirms a certain lack of affinity between Islam and democracy. In nearly all Muslim nations, democracy has never been tired or has been pushed aside after unsuccessful experiments. »

How shall all we name this trope cliché, which identifies and ideologically marks its enunciators, and affiliates with Orientalism ? « Pope Gregory’s use of the New Testament accommodationist maxim, ‘Render unto God those things that are God’s and unto Caesar those that are Caesar’s’, represented a preconstitutional separation of church and state that has no analog in Islam, which prefers that men render everything unto Allah, ecclecistic and worldly, spiritual and temporal alike. » 210.