{"id":3151,"date":"2009-10-18T10:40:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T08:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2009-10-18T10:40:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T08:40:21","slug":"von-911-zu-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2009\/10\/18\/von-911-zu-119_3151","title":{"rendered":"Von 9\/11 zu 11\/9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interessante Einsichten von Tom Friedman<\/a> in Berlin – angesichts des Dunkin‘ Donuts am Brandenburger Tor. (Prousts Madeleine<\/a> f\u00fcr unsere Zeit.)<\/p>\n

The most important difference between 11\/9 and 9\/11 is \u201cpeople power.\u201d Germans showed the world how good ideas about expanding human freedom \u2014 amplified by people power \u2014 can bring down a wall and an entire autocratic power structure, without a shot. There is now a Dunkin\u2019 Donuts on Paris Square adjacent to the Brandenburg Gate, where all that people power was concentrated. Normally, I am horrified by American fast-food brands near iconic sites, but in the case of this once open sore between East and West, I find it something of a balm. The war over Europe is indeed over. People power won. We can stand down \u2014 pass the donuts.<\/em><\/p>\n

The events of 9\/11, by contrast, demonstrated how bad ideas \u2014 amplified by a willingness of just a few people to commit suicide \u2014 can bring down skyscrapers and tie a great country in knots.<\/em><\/p>\n

I toured Paris Square the other day with Ulrike Graalfs, a program director at the American Academy in Berlin, where I am a visitor, and she mentioned in passing that she was in America on 9\/11, as a student at the University of Pennsylvania, and she was a 9-year-old schoolgirl standing on the Berlin Wall on 11\/9. I was struck by her recollections. On 9\/11, she said, she was overwhelmed by the sense of \u201canger and hurt\u201d that so many of the Penn students around her felt \u2014 feelings so intense it made it impossible for them to see, what she, a foreign student could see, \u201chow much the rest of the world was standing with America that day.\u201d By contrast, on 11\/9, \u201cthere were people singing and dancing and someone lifted me up on the wall,\u201d she said. \u201cI still get emotional thinking about it. I saw my father jump down on the other side. I was terrified. It was very high. I thought it was going to be the end of my father. He started debating with an East German soldier. But the soldier didn\u2019t do anything. He just stood there, stiff.\u201d People power won, and Germany has been united and stable ever since.<\/em><\/p>\n

The problem we have in dealing with the Arab-Muslim world today is the general absence or weakness of people power there. There is a low-grade civil war going on inside the Arab-Muslim world today, only in too many cases it is \u201cthe South versus the South\u201d \u2014 bad ideas versus bad ideas, amplified by violence, rather than bad ideas versus good ideas amplified by people power.<\/em><\/p>\n

In places like Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan or Pakistan you have violent religious extremist movements fighting with state security services. And while the regimes in these countries are committed to crushing their extremists, they rarely take on their extremist ideas by offering progressive alternatives. That\u2019s largely because the puritanical Islamic ideology of the Saudi state or segments of the Pakistani military is not all that different from the ideology of the extremists. And when these extremists aim elsewhere \u2014 like at India or at Shiites or at Israelis \u2014 these regimes are indifferent. That is why there is no true war of ideas inside these countries \u2014 just a war.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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