Monday 19 March 2012

Militant Secularists

According to Nick Cohen, there aren't any.

But the party of Avigdor Lieberman, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Israel, is extremely secular. Vichy-like, it wishes to denaturalise (and then what?) the Arabs and the ultra-Orthodox Jews.

Neoconservatism was and is a fiercely secular project to use the force of arms in order to conform the world to a blueprint designed by and for liberal-leftist New York, which is one of the most secular milieux on earth.

Exactly how religious what Cohen terms "Hindu nationalism" really is or is not, is very much a moot point. But its adherents strongly support Cohen's preferred foreign policies.

There are plenty more such examples, not only from history, but from today's world.

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