1 Mar 2010
ronan jubineau
Could you or your colleagues give us your thoughts on the Financial Time / Week End edition's two "incredible" articles on islam ....? i would like to understand what is going thru the FT's mind....thank you
1 Mar 2010
Esmerelda Weatherwax
Do you mean their articles called Intolerant Kingmaker defies Dutch cliches? and or Preventing Violent Extremeism in Britain? Because the problem with the FT is that they require registration and subscription and I can't now get access to any more articles.
My colleagues may be in a different position.
1 Mar 2010
stan
Rubenstein is a man who understands the Nazi worldview as well as anyone alive and understands also that it was not a fluke, but grew from the soil of industrial modernity in which men are measured in terms of production and consumption and the cold facts of competition make the elimination of “surplus populations” a constant, looming temptation for governments both internally and externally.
Perhaps there is something to this, but European Christians have had no problem eliminating representatives of this particular "surplus population" over a wide range of pretexts (some concocted to justify the massacre after the fact, as in the "Shepherds' Crusade" of 1320) and were often backed by mid-level clergy. Of course, the perpetrators of anti-Jewish atrocities in the Middle Ages didn't have modern technology at their disposal. In any case it is doubtful that the phenomenon of Nazism can be attributed entirely to "godless social Darwinism" without an acknowledgement of centuries of specifically Christian demonization of Jews in Europe.