http://jeremy-taylor.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-fatigue.html I can't say I really enjoyed Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel or The Caged Virgin, but she too managed to attack one of my comfortable assumptions. The accident of where you are born defines your race, colour, religion, class and education, so "multiculturalism" is the only model that allows everyone in a mixed society to feel, and to be, themselves. But Hirsi Ali (who has really been through the grinder herself) argues passionately that the absolutism of the Islamists (not of Islam, but of its fundamentalists) makes multiculturalism dangerous and unworkable. Just how far do we tolerate people who reject tolerance? If a free election in a multicultural society should produce sharia law and an end to elections (a situation apparently not impossible), should that society honour the decision or deny its own democracy by refusing to? There's a lot in Hirsi Ali that I badly don't want to agree with, but she's passionate and she makes you think.
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