Social Movements Week Twelve

This week will look at authoritarian and ethnic nationalist movements including those led by Adolph Hitler and Saddam Hussein and more recent jihadist movements.  This week's quiz will also cover From Barry's Boys to the Deaniacs  and The Left's New Machine which were covered in class on Wednesday of last week.

Quiz Eleven closes late Monday night. 
Quiz Twelve will open no later than April 17 and close late Monday night (actually  4 a.m. on April 22).  It will cover the readings listed below plus additional material covered in class.

Reading:
  1. Benazir Bhutto and the Future of Islam:  Review.
  2. Islam and Fundamentalism.ppt, powerpoint presentation in Sakai/Resources/Week Twelve
  3. "What Went Wrong" by Bernard Lewis, in Sakai/Resources/Week Twelve
  4. "I and My Brother Against My Cousin," by Stanley Kurtz.  Also in Sakai/Resources/Week Twelve as a pdf.
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Clinton - Obama Debate  -  Wednesday Night in Philadelphia.  Check TV listings.  Extra credit:  post a comment on the debate to the Discussion List.
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Advance Video:
Obama's Speech on Race and Politics, 38 minutes.  There are also shorter excerpts on YouTube.
Hillary Clinton's "Hillcasts"  On Equal Pay and Other Priorities for American Women. 
Obama explains his mangled syntax. 

Advance commentary:
Bob Herbert, "Some Perspective on 'Bitter'"
David Brooks, "A Speech About Nothing"
Citizen comments collected by Chris Satullo.
Dick Polman, "The American Debate:  Experience is not always the decider"
John B. Judis, "Woe is He"
The Mask Slips - Obama is a Marxist,  William Kristol.   Senator Lieberman. 
Obama's Not Running for Sociologist in Chief,  Robert Shrum. 
Bill Clinton Flashback,  Nico Putney. 
Ariana Huffington, Hillary is doing McCain's Job. 
Dick Polman on Elitism in Tonight's Debate.  on his BLOG. 
Letters to the Editor, Philadelphia Inquirer. 


Additional links and references:
Olympic Protest Slide Show. 
For the West, many tough calls on China. 

Should we End the Olympic Games? 
Bedouins, Wadi Rum, Jordan.  Video.
Muhammad Assas speaks on Bedouins and the Desert.  Video
Sheikh Osama Bin Laden in the Tora Boara Mountains.  Video. 
Osama Bin Laden on 9/11. 
Huntington: Clash of Civilizations in Wikipedia.  The original essay is in Sakai/Resources/WeekTwelve
Fukuyama:  The End of History in Wikipedia. 
Wikipedia:  Islamism  -  Criticism of Islamism