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A great little read on this very subject is Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit's Occidentalism.
A brief example:
O weariness of men, who turn from GOD,
To the grandeur of your mind and the glory of your action,
To arts and inventions and daring enterprises . . .
T.S. Eliot, The Rock (1934)."Blowing up the World Trade Centre in the name of Allah and a holy war is but a crude, literal, murderous echo of Eliot's verses. It is not something from a totally different order."
(__Occidentalism__, Buruma & Margalit, 21)