
Imam Tom discusses The Impossible State by Prof Wael Hallaq (part 4)
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The Anti-Islamic Importance of Nietzsche
When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1932, he was presented with a complete copy of Nietzsche's philosophy by his sister. And you can see why: He was embraced as the official philosopher of the Third Reich. The idea of what is moral, right, is a very, very new thing; it used to be so much more embedded in our ideas of what it must be. In fact, if you were to try to conceive of a definition of what the shidi is, we could say that it is the unity of law in the modern sense of what law is and morality in what the modern sense is.
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