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Values and Motivations of Islamic culture (Cover story, Time, Sept 13, 2004, Struggle for the soul of Islam) What is the force, so strong yet so peremptory, that lurks behind the voluntary soul slavery of Islamic radicals? What makes the religious passion so superior as to flood, drown and suffocate human rationality? Questions like these can never be answered or analyzed by a five-page article; however, I will try to dig out the fragments of some possible explanations in light of the basic theories of value, motivation and culture. In some sense, the self-pollination of Islamic culture, value and relevant motivations has incorporated the Muslim Fundamentalists the world-best "corporation", which works in a most efficient manner. This "corporation" has "upright" and specific goals; it also has charismatic leaders to lead the radical masses to those goals; it effectively motivates the obedient followers, who are willing to sacrifice for those goals, in...

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