Friday, October 19, 2007
The ways of Washington
In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.Read More
The Social Singularity Continued
There are some questions that are so dangerous that most people simply refuse to consider them. However as our technology begins to offer new tools, some of our unthinkable questions may well be answered within a mere generation. Read More
Thursday, October 18, 2007
HITLER'S LEGACY: ISLAMIC ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST
A transcript of a very informative lecture by Matthias Kuentzel. A short synopsis can't do the lecture justice, but the basic point is that while there was always anti-Jewish sentiment in the Muslim world, it also was based on the notion of Jews as an inferior group that Mohammed had defeated militarily. Anti-Semitic visions of powerful Jews being behind the world's problesm, and plotting to control the world, found most prominently in the Hamas charter, entered the Muslim world via the Muslim Brotherhood, who in turn took those ideas from the Nazis, which spent significant effort and money propagating them in the Middle East. This all started well before the creation of the State of Israel, belying the notion that the Israel-Palestinian conflict caused modern Muslim anti-Semitism. Thanks to Scholars for Peace in the Middle East for the pointer. Read More
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