Tuesday, May 27, 2003 :::
George Will relates the suggestion that [I]n the East Indies outpost of the Dutch empire, where a notably relaxed and tolerant Islamic faith had long flourished, Krakatoa, by terrifying and dispossessing people, may have catalyzed the much fiercer form of Islam that fused with anticolonialism. It is alive and dealing death today.
I tend to think lately that a lot of large consequences that seem to stem from random details — whether Krakatoa counts as a "detail" or not — were more or less waiting to happen, in their generalities, in one form or another, and that any other trigger.
::: posted by dWj at 3:42 PM
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