17 september 2019 Sometimes the question is raised whether there exists a need for a European Islam. Hereafter I defend that at its core there is no need for such a thing and that it certainly is not up to atheists like myself to create something like a European Islam. I do believe that in […]
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13. Food For Thought – Quote ; Thant Myint-U in “The River of Lost Footsteps”
17 september 2019 Page 41 : “The most striking aspect of the Burma debate today is its absence of nuance and its singularly ahistorical nature. Dictatorship and the prospects for democracy are seen within the prism of the past ten or twenty years, as if three Anglo-Burmese wars, a century of colonial rule, an immensely […]
12. The status of national self-determination
17 september 2019 In the history of Europe as I described it in my book LIBERAL QUICKSAND I assign an important place to the principle of National Self Determination (PNSD). It was invoked throughout recent history to justify the creation of new nations/states. To a certain degree the principle is used ( but only sparsely) […]
6. Nationalism is a progressive force
13 september 2019 Nationalism is an emotionally loaded term. It should not be like that. Nationalism refers in the first place to the process which started with the French Revolution whereby a nation creates a state or a state a nation with a linguistically homogeneous territory. An ideology that drives the process can an be […]