05.29.10
The Eurabian question
From Arts & Letters: It could be that in few decades, Europe will be but the northern part of the Maghreb. But maybe North Africa and the Middle East will by then be far more Europeanized… more
I think that a generation of the multicultural left has been enough. It is a false left, and has done a disservice to secular modernity, which Marx certainly embraced (as he made nauseating remarks about Indian colonialism). Without that the left is nothing. The question of immigration is one thing: if Moslems find themselves in rising numbers in Europe, then…then that is a demographic reality, with a curious logic, but it is a token, not of the wished for regression to Islamization, but of the unconscious desire of the immigrants to embrace modern culture(s) and escape their past in the countries from which they came. I think that the left should stop being counterproductive on this issue, granting the value in a vigilance toward xenophobia. But the issue is finally the universal ‘modern’ culture that is now global, and transcultural. There is no going back, and no need to put up with the nonsense of Islamicists.
The Gurdjieff Con » Sufism vs the Eurabian question said,
May 29, 2010 at 4:40 pm
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