{"id":37,"date":"2005-11-07T23:00:51","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T21:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2025-07-16T21:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T20:55:12","slug":"fukuyama-on-the-roots-of-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Fukuyama on the Roots of Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the EU website euractive.com a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-146752-16&amp;type=Analysis&amp;Source=RSS\">summary of Fukuyama&#8217;s article <\/a>of 2 November in the Wall Street Journal &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/editorial\/feature.html?id=110007491\">A Year of Living Dangerously<\/a>, registration required &#8211; can be found :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>..radicalisation .. is not purely, or even mainly, a  religious phenomenon, but is a product of modernisation and  globalisation. .. a solution lies in the true assimilation of immigrants  into .. a \u2018national identity\u2019. This cannot be attained by, for example,  Dutch insistence on a command of the language and a knowledge of Dutch  history or UK ideas of a \u2018citizenship test\u2019 containing questions  impenetrable to the average Brit, but by a \u2018discussion of the  interconnected issues of identity, culture and immigration\u2019.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As for the British test, I think it rather stupid to request from immigrants to  pass an exam that many Dutch will fail to pass (I barely passed, but my boss failed&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the EU website euractive.com a summary of Fukuyama&#8217;s article of 2 November in the Wall Street Journal &#8211; A Year of Living Dangerously, registration required &#8211; can be found : ..radicalisation .. is not purely, or even mainly, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/?p=37\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}