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French Interior Minister Manuel Valls has said that Paris is set to deport a string of radical religious imams as part of a fight against "global jihadism". "Several radical foreign preachers will be expelled in the coming days," Valls told a Brussels conference called to tackle extremism in Europe on Tuesday, without identifying any of the individuals concerned. "I don't confuse this radical Islam with the Islam of France but there is a religious environment, there are Salafist groupings, who are involved in a political process, whose aim is to monopolise cultural associations, the schooling system," he added. "We will...

Fundamentalism of the Left is no less dreadful than fundamentalism of the Right. Both are taken much by, what Fredric Jameson calls in another context, “the buzzing confusion of immediacy.” This not only makes them see the world from a very narrow standpoint but also leads them to believe that their narrow standpoint is actually a universal truth. In that respect both fundamentalisms follow closely in the footsteps of colonialism. Ruling over a people, making statements about them, refusing to hear their side of the story, denying them the power of narration and self-definition: that is what old colonialism was...