Joris Luyendijk writes:
"I spent many years researching Islam and Muslims.
"I set out with images in my mind of angry bearded men burning American flags, but as the years went by I became more and more optimistic: beyond the frightening rhetoric and sensationalist television footage, ordinary Muslim people go about their day like all other human beings.
"The problem of radical Islam is smaller and more containable than Islamophobes believe.
"With bankers I have experienced an opposite trajectory.
"With bankers I have experienced an opposite trajectory.
"I started with the reassuring images in my mind of well-dressed bankers and their lobbyists; surely at some basic level these people knew what they were doing?
"But after two years I feel myself becoming deeply pessimistic and genuinely terrified..."
Continued here: Our banks are not merely out of control. They're beyond control
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