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Source: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007326
Heart of Darkness
(Wall Street Journal) Fouad Ajami - The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq is the silence with which it is greeted in other Arab lands. Zarqawi has been skilled at exposing the moral emptiness of so much of official Arab life. The extremist is never just a man of the fringe: He always works at the outer edges of mainstream life, playing out the hidden yearnings and defects of the dominant culture. In the way he rails against the Shiites (and the Kurds), Zarqawi expresses that fatal Arab inability to take in "the other." Zarqawi and the band of killers arrayed around him must know the meaning of this great Arab silence.