Christopher Hitchens: Rhetoric, Religion, and Ramadan
Decoding the Gurus
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The Importance of Historical Contingency
"There's nothing inherently attributable to conservatism, I think, that lends itself to violence more so than radical progressivism at a different point in time," he says. "You cannot just avoid talking about political instrumentalization of countries where there is no democracy and these countries are not Islamist countries." He adds: "All the main societies where the government used this ... it's easier to use the people to tell them against the West"
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