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Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.
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Citizenship of a democratic state means living by the laws of the country. A liberal democracy cannot survive when part of the population believes that divine laws trump those made by man.
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Islam may soon become the majority religion in countries whose churches have been turned more and more into tourist sites, apartment houses, theatres, and places of entertainment. The French scholar Olivier Roy is right: Islam is now a European religion.
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Ian Buruma |
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The solution to the Muslim problem is a Muslim Voltaire, a Muslim Nietzsche--that
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Ian Buruma |
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On May 7 crowds had gathered on Dam Square in the center of Amsterdam in front of the Royal Palace, cheering, dancing, singing, waving the orange flag of the Dutch royal family, in anticipation of the triumphant British and Canadian troops whose arrival was imminent. Watching the happy throng from the windows of a gentlemen's club on the square, German naval officers decided in a last-minute fit of pique to fire into the crowd with a machin..
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after all that, after the concentration camps in Germany, after we stated definitely that our former home was changed into a mass grave, we can only grope and clasp with our finger tips the shadows of our dearest and painfully cry: I can never more see my home. The victorious nations that in the 20th century removed the black plague from Europe must understand once and for all the specific Jewish problem. No, we are not Polish when we are b..
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Without ideology, and with nothing but jobs for the boys at stake, party politics was losing its raison d'etre, and trust in the old democratic order could no longer be taken for granted.
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Ian Buruma |
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LIBERATION IS PERHAPS not the right word to describe the end of the war in colonial societies. Most Asians were more than happy to be rid of the Japanese, whose "Asian liberation" had turned out to be worse than the Western imperialism it temporarily replaced. But liberation is not quite what the Dutch had in mind for the Dutch East Indies in 1945, or the French for Indochina, or the British for Malaya."
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I think that Ryu Chishu, or Tanaka Kinuyo, or to be more precise, the imaginary characters they portrayed, were more real to the film buffs than any existing human being. This is why cinephiles are spookier, on the whole, than music lovers or balletomanes. For they are creatures of the dark, getting off on the lives of others.
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Ian Buruma |
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In her prime, she bore a slight resemblance to Liberace, but in a more masculine way
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Ian Buruma |
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The Japanese have an expression for human relations that are sticky with the mutual obligations and dependencies of the collective life. They use the English word "wet." Traditional Japanese family relations are "wet." Yakuza gangs are "wet." Behavior that is more detached, more individualistic, often associated with a Western way of life, is "dry." Terayama Shuji was "dry." Kara was most definitely "wet."
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Ian Buruma |
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Yahudi intikami siyasal destek gormedigi icin, hicbir zaman uygulanamadi. Siyonist liderler savasla kana bulanmis Avrupa ulkelerinden uzakta, col arazisini isleyen ve gururlu yurttas-askerler olarak dusmanlariyla carpisan yigit Israilogullari temasi uzerine kurulu farkli turden bir normallik yaratmaya calistilar. Ice kapanik bir yaklasimla gelecege baktilar. Gerci o gelecek de katliamla, etnik ve dinsel catismayla dolu olacakti ama dokulen ..
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Gercekle yuz yuze gelmeyi, cogu kez hayal kirikligi izler. Beauvoir'nin anlattigina gore, Sartre ABD'den "butun gordukleri biraz afallamis" olarak dondu. Insanlardan elbette hoslanmis ve Roosevelt'e hayran kalmisti; ama Beauvoir'nin ifadesiyle "Bati yarikurenin uygarliginda ekonomik sistem, ayrimcilik ve irkcilik disinda onu soka ugratan bircok sey vardi - Amerikalilarin tutuculugu, degerler olcegi, efsaneleri, iyimserlikleri, her turlu tra..
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