“What terrorist fundamentalists lack is a feature easy to discern in all authentic fundamentalists, from Tibetan Buddhists to the Amish: the absence of resentment and envy, the deep indifference to the non- believers’ way of life. If today’s so-called fundamentalists really believe they have found their way to Truth, why should they feel threatened by non-believers? When a Buddhist encounters a Western hedonist, he hardly condemns. He just benevolently notes that the hedonist’s search for happiness is self-defeating. In contrast, the terrorist fundamentalists are deeply bothered, intrigued, fascinated by the sinful life of the non-believers. One can feel that, in fighting the sinful other, they are fighting their own temptations.”
Slavoj Žižek in The New York Times