London Free Press | 16Aug2010 | Orest Slepokura
Hate
Re: "Israel facing revival of deep-seated hate," Salim Mansur, London
Free Press, 14 August 2010.
After sourcing his understanding of Jews and anti-Semitism to
philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, a Marxist and hardcore atheist notorious
for serving as an apologist for totalitarian monsters like Stalin and
Mao, Salim Mansur then piously invokes "the fallen nature of the world
that makes of Israel a light unto nations." Religion for Sartre was --
no pun intended -- a form of bad faith; he regarded belief in the
supernatural as cowardly escapism. Not a very sturdy peg to hang one's
piety on.
POSTED BY: Orest Slepokura, Strathmore, Alta
POSTED ON: August 16, 2010