The Parasitic Mindset
One of the world's greatest bloggers, Nelson Ascher, is back in style, with a number of must-read posts. This excerpt, taken from his latest piece,
The Parasitic Mindset, is especially good:
Whatever we create they exploit: from cars and planes to democracy and political correctness, from public transportation to explosives and the UN, from open borders to the internet and investment banking.
"Together, facing the new totalitarianism"
Please read
this extremely important appeal, signed by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Salman Rushdie, Bernard Henri-Lévy and Taslima Nasreen, among others.
After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.
The recent events, which occurred after the publication of drawings of Muhammed in European newspapers, have revealed the necessity of the struggle for these universal values. This struggle will not be won by arms, but in the ideological field. It is not a clash of civilisations nor an antagonism of West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats.
