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This is the problem with unedifying labels such as Islam and the west: they mislead and confuse the mind, which is trying to make sense of a disorderly reality that won’t be pigeon-holed. I remember interrupting a man who, after a lecture I had given at a West Bank university in 1994, rose from the audience and started to attack my ideas as “western”, as opposed to the strict Islamic ones he espoused. “Why are you wearing a suit and tie?” was the first retort that came to mind. “They’re western, too.” He sat down with an embarrassed smile on his face, but I recalled the incident when information on the 11 September terrorists started to come in: how they had mastered all the technical details required to inflict their homicidal evil on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the aircraft they had commandeered. Where does one draw the line between “western” technology and, as Berloscuni declared, “Islam’s” inability to be a part of “modernity”?

–Edward Said, “We All Swim Together”

40. The main purpose of this selection is

A. To make fun of the west.

B. To praise the technical skill of the terrorists.

C. To question conventional labels and identity categories.

D. To criticize the media.

41. Which of the following claims is NOT part of Said’s argument:

A. Labels are not useful.

B. The claim that Islam cannot be part of modernity is false.

C. The histories of the ‘west’ and Islam are complexly intertwined.

D. Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is a bad thing.

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