Poverty of dignity

“I have long believed that it is this poverty of dignity, not a poverty of money, that is behind a lot of Muslim rage today and the reason this rage is sharpest among educated, but frustrated, Muslim youth.” Tom Friedman provides an important analysis of the source of Muslim rage in the world. Why, he asks, isn’t there an outcry at the Hindu massacre of hundred of Muslims in India? Israel, he concludes, is an affront to Muslim self-perception.