Posted on 08/02/2002 6:09:50 PM PDT by aculeus
Good answer. Some other universities and colleges should take note!
If that happens, what do you think the leftists will be able to say was wrong with Nazism?
They'll pretend there's no contradiction whatever, just as they apologized for Stalin and his mass murder of 20 million (or more) Russians during the purges, and the forced starvation in the satellite states. The Left has been doing this tap dance ever since the 1930s. They can condemn Nazism out of one side of the mouth, yet support Stalinism, Maoism, AND Islamofascism right out the other side, and not even lose a wink of sleep over it.
Sometimes - and especially in the West, out of the direct influence of Muslim regimes - they're much more devoted Muslims.
In all patriarchal societies men feel themselves more relaxed then women; when they live in predominantly non-Muslim environment, they relax even more. Not so women: they are those who maintain traditions and customs in the family, and this role of their's becomes even more important when abroad.
I observe this going on in an Iranian family of my acquaintance. Masud, the husband, just loves his bacon and eggs for breakfast. He insists his son to look after himself and his room as his NZ mates do. He thinks that his daughter's university studies are priority No 1.
His wife is always ready to interrupt their daughter studying in her room and to order her clean up her brother's one. She's also the one who is trying to keep pork and other non-chalal things away from the kitchen. For her, priority No1 for the daughter is to marry a suitable Muslim guy; the priority No 1 for herself is to find a groom for the daughter.
Well, let's hope it'll cure the author of this item, Dr. Theodore Dalrymple from The New Statesman liberal rag.
Or, as M Steyn'd put it recently, he rarely misses an opportunity to give the Islamists the full Monica.
They does, and Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is just one illustration of that.
To blame the Right for Nazism is an old Leftie game. There are books published as long ago as in the 50s that proove the leftism of the Fascism and Nazism. They also show that the game of reversing the blame was old even then.
Mussolini was the best orator of the Socialist Party in Italy, and the best writer of its organ AVANTI! He left the party and founded his own - Fascist one - because in his view the Italian Socialists weren't radical enough.
And what to say about the National Socialist Workers Party - the full name of the Nazis which contemporary Left just hate to pronounce? Rest asured, it was socialist and workers' not only in name!
"Anything" is not the same as "everything". I think the point of Chesterton's quote is that the atheist will be swayed by, and change his belief system, according to whatever winds of doctrine seem appealing at the moment. As opposed to one who's value system is based on unchanging absolutes established by an external creator.
In other words, there's no telling what an atheist may believe tomorrow.
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