VLVL II: "What is Fascism?" (fwd)

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 05:01, lorentzen-nicklaus wrote:
> * Hey there, thought some of you may be interested ... What's irritating
> about this (just got the mail: haven't had time to check the book) is the
> immediate identification of islamic fundamentalism with fascism (chapter 10)
> and, especially, the thesis that there is a "new European consent" towards
> the islamist rebellion against the western world (chapter 11). This is obviously
> not the case. Just read any article about the Kopftuch(head-scarf) question.
> Should muslim girls be allowed to wear a head-scarf in the classroom? And if they
> do although it's forbidden, do we have the right to call them (or their parents)
> "fascists"? What do black muslims in the USA say about this?



Yes I agree this promotion by Akronos Publishing is irritating but to me
the irritation comes mostly from the fact that, judging from the
abstract, the book is complete nonsense. It may be comforting to
remember that few will ever read it or take whatever it ends up saying
seriously. Akronos specializes in aetherometry. 

How the West should deal with Muslim fundamentalism and the head-scarf
(or other religious symbols) in public classrooms is a conundrum.