Posted on 01/16/2015 8:02:55 AM PST by lbryce
The prime minister of France, Manuel Valls, has emerged over the past tumultuous week as one of the Wests most vocal foes of Islamism, though hes actually been talking about the threat it poses for a long while. During the course of an interview conducted before the Charlie Hebdo attacks, he told mehe went out of his way to tell me, in factthat he refuses to use the term Islamophobia to describe the phenomenon of anti-Muslim prejudice, because, he says, the accusation of Islamophobia is often used as a weapon by Islamism's apologists to silence their critics.
Most of my conversation with Valls was focused on the fragile state of French Jewryhere is my post on his comments, which included the now-widely circulated statement that, if 100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be Franceand I didnt realize the importance of his comment about Islamophobia until I re-read the transcript of our interview.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
I think the aspect of pride that can be rightly considered a sin comes into this too. You aren’t going to be able to rationally think about your situation and surroundings if you are focused on your own vanity. Fashionableness is vanity I think, and fashions come in many, many flavors. It’s a hydra, like fear, probably because in both cases you are focusing on yourself.
The analogy is quite accurate except their heads are buried not down but up and into their alimentary canal.
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