They tend to think that all conflicts are really political, concerning who has power over whom.

From Forgiveness and Irony: What makes the West strong by Roger Scruton. An interesting exploration of the intersection between Islam and the West.

This passage in particular stood out to me.

People inoculated by the culture of repudiation, reluctant to acknowledge the search for meaning as a human universal, tend to think that all conflicts are really political, concerning who has power over whom. They are apt to believe that the causes of Islamist terrorism lie in the “social injustice” against which the terrorists protest and that the failure of all other attempts to rectify things renders their regrettable methods necessary.