Is criticising financial capitalism anti-American?
To steal the line from Atrios:
Yes.
This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.
Equally I have seen genuine (not the increasingly prevalent ersatz variety) exponents of Islamic Finance classified alongside bin Laden, no doubt as Economic Terrorists...
quite rightly for Western Europe? I really haven't seen it other than the usual suspects like the German far right. No different than the US in parts of the paleocon and paleolib currents. Eastern Europe is a whole different story - there it is unfortunately quite common. I get the impression that the same is true in the Islamic world. Or in other words it's what you get with right wing economic populism. The old socialism of idiots model.
