The side of Islamism that powerful people want to keep hidden.

"Everything we know about al-Qaida's operations, as of those of Saddam Hussein, suggests that they combine the culture of a crime family or cartel with the worst habits of a bent multinational corporation. Yet the purist critics of 'globalization' tend to assume that the spiritual or nationalistic claims of such forces still deserve to be taken at their own valuation, lest Western 'insensitivity' be allowed to triumph."