The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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...'May I ask you a rather personal question?' 'Certainly' I said.
"Does it trouble you," he inquired, "to make your living by disrupting the lives of others?"
"We just value," I replied. "We do not decide whether to buy or to sell, or indeed what happens to a company after we have values it."
He nodded; he lit a cigarette and took a sip from his glass of wine. Then he asked, "Have you heard of the janissaries?"
"No" I said. "They were Christian boys," he explained, "captured by the Ottomans and trained to be soldiers in a Muslim army, at that time the greatest army in the world. They were ferocious and utterly loyal: they had fought to erase their own civilizations, so they had nothing else to turn to."
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...Not for us the vegetarian recipes one finds across the border to the east, nor the sanitized, sterilized, processed meats so common in your homeland! Here we are not squeamish when it comes to facing the consequences of our desire.
For we were not always burdened by debt, dependent on foreign aid and handouts; in the stories we tell of ourselves we were not the crazed and destitute radicals you see on your television channels but rather saints and poets and, yes, conquering kings. We built the Royal Mosque and the Shalimar Gardens in this city, and we built the Lahore Fort with its mighty walls and wide ramp for our battle-elephants. And we did these things when your country was still a collection of thirteen small colonies, gnawing away at the edge of a continent.
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... Then one of my colleagues asked me a question, and when I turned to answers him, something rather strange took place. I looked at him, at his fair hair and light eyes and, most of all, his obvious immersion in the minutiae of our work, and thought, you are so foreign. I felt in that moment much closer to the Filipino driver than to him. I felt I was play-acting when in reality I ought to be making my way home, like the people on the street outside.
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...ama bizi en çok huzursuz eden şey yalnızlığımız;bir kentin orta yerinde olduğumuz halde neredeyse bizden başka kimsenin olmayışı.
Bize ait olan bir şey artık bizde olmuyor ve bize ait olmayan bir şey de artık içimizde oluyor.