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Herald discovered 18 months ago- "It is time to extend our solidarity to all the rebels of the Islamic world, non-believers, atheist libertines, dissenters, sentinels of liberty, as we supported Eastern European dissidents in former times ... Yet our continent kneels before God's madmen, muzzling and libelling free thinkers with suicidal heedlessness"
- happyacres rated 15 months ago
- From the page: "Ayaan Hirsi Ali, it is true, does elude current stereotypes of political correctness. As a Somali, she proclaims the superiority of Europe over Africa. As a woman, she is neither wife nor mother. As a Muslim, she openly denounces the backwardness of the Koran. So many flouted cliches make her a true rebel, unlike the sham insurgents our societies produce by the dozen. It is her wilful, short-fused, enthusiastic, impervious side to which Ian Buruma and Timothy Garton Ash object, in the spirit of the inquisitors who saw devil-possessed witches in every woman too flamboyant for their tastes. Reading their utterly condescending words, it becomes clear that the war against Muslim fundamentalism will have to be won first on a symbolic level, and by women. Because they represent the pivot of the family and social order."
- laodan rated 17 months ago
- Enlightenment fundamentalism or racism of the anti-racists? via 3QD, in Sign and Sight
Pascal Bruckner defends Ayaan Hirsi Ali against Ian Buruma and Timothy Garton Ash, condemning their idea of multiculturalism for chaining people to their roots. "What to say to a man who tells you he prefers to obey God than to obey men, and who is consequently sure of entering the gates of Heaven by slitting your throat?" - Voltaire "Colonisation and slavery have created a sentiment of culpability in the West that leads people to adulate foreign traditions. This is a lazy, even racist attitude." Ayaan Hirsi Ali Ian Buruma (in Perlentaucher) and Timothy Garton Ash respond to Pascal Bruckner's defense of Ayaan Hirsi Ali against their alleged attacks. Enlightenment fundamentalism or racism of the anti-racists? Freedom cannot be decreed Better Pascal than Pascal Bruckner
This is one of the hottest subjects debated nowadays around the world. But both sides of the equation are totally unaware of the fact that their discourses are bathing in the reality of the human way... Just consider the following 2 factors: The human way: - societies have always, and this is valid anywhere, developed strategies to assure their own reproduction in the form of shared worldviews (willingly or imposed). - this basic societal reality always, and anywhere, has been opposed by individuals who wanted to change the status-quo (because of power or of knowledge). - those 2 immemorial trends that characterize our humanity have always caused frictions and tension. But, in finale, those tensions gave the energy that powered societal change (everywhere and at any time in humanity's history) Modernity: No doubt modernity acts like a totalitarian ideology and the consequences of this totalitarianism can be seen in: a massive scale extinction of species, a massive scale destruction of traditional cultures and languages, a fast changing climate, polluted waters and so on and on. Check Le Monde Diplomatique's special on Peut-on ne pas croire ?. (Can we do without belief?)
- Enlightenment fundamentalism or racism of the anti-racists? via 3QD, in Sign and Sight
- laudano rated 18 months ago
- From the page: "Anyone with a mind to contend timidly that liberty is indivisible, that the life of a human being has the same value everywhere, that amputating a thief's hand or stoning an adulteress is intolerable everywhere, is duly arraigned in the name of the necessary equality of cultures. As a result, we can turn a blind eye to how others live and suffer once they've been parked in the ghetto of their particularity. Enthusing about their inviolable differentness alleviates us from having to worry about their condition. However it is one thing to recognise the convictions and rites of fellow citizens of different origins, and another to give one's blessing to hostile insular communities that throw up ramparts between themselves and the rest of society. How can we bless this difference if it excludes humanity instead of welcoming it? This is the paradox of multiculturalism: it accords the same treatment to all communities, but not to the people who form them, denying them the freedom to liberate themselves from their own traditions. Instead: recognition of the group, oppression of the individual. The past is valued over the wills of those who wish to leave custom and the family behind and - for example - love in the manner they see fit."
