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> [“When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. They do not see,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/when-muslim-radicals-and-fundamentalists-look-at-the-west-they-see/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

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