A peculiar alienation

"By now, many Arabs have been educated in the West, where they too have learned the techniques for judging themselves in an awkward and uncomfortable position of implicitly criticizing their own societies insofar as these are not yet Westernized. A peculiar alienation arises, compounded of complacency at mastering these techniques and the self-rejection they seem to imply. Not surprisingly, it becomes an escape from self-hatred to swing to Islamocentric emotions, to deny and to misrepresent Western values, to pretend that Muslims inhabit one world and Christians quite another, to lose any embarrassing comparisons of the cultures in apologetic metaphors of "imperialism." (The Closed Circle, David Pryce-Jones, 2002; page 19).