Great Regulars: After the Cold War ended

and the US became the "world's only superpower", it soon became evident that in the search for new world-scale, outside enemies, Islam was a prime candidate, thus quickly reviving all the old religiously based clichés about violent, anti-modernist, and monolithic Islam. These clichés were useful to Israel and its political and academic supporters in the US, particularly because of the emergence of Islamic resistance movements to Israel's military occupation of the Palestinian territories and Lebanon.

from Daily Times: Purple Patch: Impossible histories--Edward Said

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