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Tolerance As Civilizational Discourse
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Civilizational Discourse
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The only Western leader who vigorously took up this challenge was actually the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn... Fortuyn questioned Muslim immigration to the Netherlands...not because he was against Muslims but because he felt that Islam had not gone through the Enlightenment or the Reformation, which separated church from state in the West and prepared it to embrace modernity, democracy and tolerance.
As a gay man, Fortuyn was very much in need of tolerance, and his challenge to Muslim immigrants was this: I want to be tolerant, but do you? Or do you have an authoritarian culture that will not be assimilated, and that threatens my country’s liberal, multicultural ethos?”
Thomas Friedman, Foreign Affairs Editorialist
The New York Times
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The War on Terrrorism is a war for human rights.
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Donald Rumsfeld, June 12, 2002
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“Moderate Muslim Voices Must be Heard,” New York Times Op-Ed, June 4, 2002.
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NPR, June 12, 2002, Rumsfeld responding to concerns about the rights of 2400 suspects
currently detained by the U.S. government.
In the eyes of the West, the legitimacy of Israel is based upon its secularism as much as
its singular status as a Jewish state. That is, Israel’s external legitimacy and membership in “the
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Civilizational Discourse
2
The only Western leader who vigorously took up this challenge was actually the Dutch
politician Pim Fortuyn... Fortuyn questioned Muslim immigration to the Netherlands...not
because he was against Muslims but because he felt that Islam had not gone through the
Enlightenment or the Reformation, which separated church from state in the West and
prepared it to embrace modernity, democracy and tolerance.
As a gay man, Fortuyn was very much in need of tolerance, and his challenge to Muslim
immigrants was this: I want to be tolerant, but do you? Or do you have an authoritarian
culture that will not be assimilated, and that threatens my country’s liberal, multicultural
ethos?”
Thomas Friedman, Foreign Affairs Editorialist
The New York Times
3
The War on Terrrorism is a war for human rights.
4
Donald Rumsfeld, June 12, 2002
3
“Moderate Muslim Voices Must be Heard,” New York Times Op-Ed, June 4, 2002.
4
NPR, June 12, 2002, Rumsfeld responding to concerns about the rights of 2400 suspects
currently detained by the U.S. government.
In the eyes of the West, the legitimacy of Israel is based upon its secularism as much as
its singular status as a Jewish state. That is, Israel’s external legitimacy and membership in “the
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