Month: March 2012

• March 23, 2012

  French anti-Semitism must share the blame for the murders in Toulouse. – Slate Magazine

  French anti-Semitism must share the blame for the murders in Toulouse. – Slate Magazine.

   

  This is an excellent article. But it is not secularism that is at issue, it is simple intolerance and bigotry hiding behind an Enlightenment veil. I saw that same thing among Ba’athist secular anti-religious ‘enlightened’ elites in Damascus. Now we see the hatred they were covering up. Let’s not insult secularism and the Enlightenment, and the beautiful values espoused by Locke, Kant and so many others all the way to Rawls etc,  and instead indict hate and tribal intolerance, a perennial and universal human quality that we all need to struggle with in our souls every day. We can be victorious when we face things for what they are.…