antw. Re: antw. light summer reading
Clément Levy
cl.levy at free.fr
Fri Jun 28 10:13:41 CDT 2002
Salut, Kai
why do you think the guy to be a "coward"? i don't know many people
> who,
> these days, would dare to say in public that they consider islam to be
> "the most
> stupid religion of all which could have been invented only by fellows
> hanging
> around in the desert with nothing better to do than to fuck their
> camels".
I said he's a coward because saying such things as you're quoting is
choosing rather easy (and stupid) thinking than trying to think why islamic
extremism has been a (political? economical? military?) choice for so many
people in the world. Of course it's fast way to be in every newspaper the
next day. But when Italian Prime Minister said that maybe occidental
civilization (!) was better than the islamic one, t'was a general Poooh !
against this Berluscolini.
In France the one-eyed pork (J-M LP) held the same speeches because it's
violent and sounds like brave and free. It's the freedom of blindness and
dumbness. But it's only saying loud what many people are ashamed of
thinking silently. And first of all, it's made in order to fanatize (does
this word
exist?) people who listen to those speeches and believe they are once in
all their life told the truth. But it's anything but truth. If they believe
it is and see everybody around frightened of them, or contemptuous against
them, they feel brave and all go, vote and try to make a president out of
this one-eyed pork.
I don't say you're a nazi. But thinking Hbecq's thoughts are brave is an
error, a very serious error, I fear.
Viele liebe grüsse.
Clément
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