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The wealth earned within a company is invested abroad, where it expands foreign financial markets or inflates the housing market in Western capitals… entire streets in London, through dummy company intermediaries, have come under ownership of third-world investors.
There is objective complicity among the privileged, which extend beyond borders & continents. Why would they change a situation that benefits them?
— Sep 05, 2024 09:58PM
There is objective complicity among the privileged, which extend beyond borders & continents. Why would they change a situation that benefits them?
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AnnaBR
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“our common salvation is at stake.”
“maybe history, for the most part, simply passes us by and we have no other recourse than to let time pass, with the hope that things will improve. But if we can act toward fulfilling our shared destiny, even a little, if we can play some role in it, no matter how small, it would be unforgivable for us not to have tried.”
— Sep 05, 2024 10:31PM
“maybe history, for the most part, simply passes us by and we have no other recourse than to let time pass, with the hope that things will improve. But if we can act toward fulfilling our shared destiny, even a little, if we can play some role in it, no matter how small, it would be unforgivable for us not to have tried.”
AnnaBR
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The afterward states the formerly colonized were not scandalized or surprised by the book, and media reception was generous and courteous. The media of the former colonizers were more opposed to it.
— Sep 05, 2024 10:27PM
AnnaBR
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“A coalition of free spirits against dogmatists and their fanaticism.” “Our common salvation is at stake.”
Critical pieces at the end as at the beginning: fighting poverty and corruption.
— Sep 05, 2024 10:21PM
Critical pieces at the end as at the beginning: fighting poverty and corruption.
AnnaBR
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‘The Arab-Muslim world must recognize and acknowledge, exactly contrary to fundamentalism, that the West is now a part of their world, just as the West must acknowledge that Muslims are a part of their world.’ Not to reject the best of the West bc of its origin, akin to rejecting algebra for its, but to embrace it becoming part of a shared heritage.
— Sep 05, 2024 10:17PM
AnnaBR
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“Secularism is not a ban on religious practice, which would be another form of tyranny. It is an institutional agreement to protect freedom of thought for everyone”
— Sep 05, 2024 10:11PM
AnnaBR
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“The normal and desirable destiny of any immigrant is to transform himself into a citizen.”
— Sep 05, 2024 10:09PM
AnnaBR
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“Although [fundamentalists] cannot win the war, they can destroy peace… it would mean making the world unlivable for those they claim to defend.” “It is often active minorities that make history.” ‘Their intent is to destroy Arab regimes one by one and harass the West into global confrontation.’
“It cannot live in symbiosis with the West and show indulgence toward those who desire its destruction.”
— Sep 05, 2024 10:08PM
“It cannot live in symbiosis with the West and show indulgence toward those who desire its destruction.”
AnnaBR
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“Waiting for salvation from a colonial power, now a former colonial power, is as illusory as it is for women to expect to attain their liberation through male goodwill.”
— Sep 05, 2024 10:02PM
AnnaBR
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“Fundamentalism is conducted, from within and without, as a form of continuous war.” “To claim that everything resides in the Koran means there is nothing outside of it; that anyone who does not follow the Koran falls outside the bounds of humanity and deserves to be treated with the utmost severity… Christianity did the same until the separation of religion and politics.”
— Sep 05, 2024 09:49PM
AnnaBR
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“Marxism has been transformed into a new religion, dogmatic and exclusive, but without the habitual appeal of religion: the reassuring rituals and mythic hopes.”
— Sep 05, 2024 09:47PM
