“Why They Don’t Hate Us, the latest book by University of California professor Mark LeVine, is his attempt to ‘figure out how to get out of the mess the Muslim world and the West have gotten into since 9/11,’ says the author. LeVine writes that ‘Why do they hate us?’ is the wrong post-9/11 question for the West to ask. He argues that although an ‘axis of arrogance and ignorance’ has produced the violence that defines global politics, there are models for empathy and understanding emerging in youth culture and the world music scene. LeVine recently spoke to Beliefnet senior editor Alice Chasan about his book.”