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Glenn Beck Watch: Christopher Hitchens on Herderian Religious Nationalism in the United States

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

At Slate this week, in an article titled “White Fright,” Christopher Hitchens doesn’t call the Tea Partiers Herderians (as I have this past month), but his description of them matches European Herderian politics perfectly. In fact, Christopher Hitchens makes the link between European ethnic politics … Continue reading →

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We the (White) Sheeple

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

Glenn Beck’s followers speak:

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Herderian Religious Cleansing, 1930s style, in Malaysia and the United States

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

Here’s an image of a book burning in Berlin, May 10, 1933: And here’s an image of a burned out synagogue after Krisallnacht (November, 1938): These two images are what anti-Enlightenment Herderian political action so readily devolves into. And now here … Continue reading →

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Tea Party Herderian Terrorism? Mosque Building Site Fire in Tennessee Ruled an Arson

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

This at CBS News last night: Federal officials are investigating a fire that started overnight at the site of a new Islamic center in a Nashville suburb. Ben Goodwin of the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department confirmed to CBS Affiliate WTVF … Continue reading →

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The Ground Zero Mosque: Are We a Judeo-Christian Country or a Jeffersonian Country?

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

Muhammad Al-Zekri, a Muslim who is also a Bahraini anthropologist, gets it. He thinks that the ground zero mosque debate is good for America. This today in the New York Times: ‘What’s happening in America is very healthy,’ said Muhammad Al-Zekri, a … Continue reading →

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9-11 Collective Guilt Watch: Muslim American NYC Cab Driver Stabbed for Being Muslim

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

This today at TPM: According to Detective Marc Nell, at 6:14 pm last night, the driver picked up Michael Enright, 21, of Brewster, NY, at the intersection of 24th Street and 2nd Avenue in Manhattan. The cab proceeded to drive … Continue reading →

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Chris Hedges and the Ground Zero Mosque

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

Earlier in the summer, one of my favorite writers, Chris Hedges, offered an incisive and scathing critique of Anti-Enlightenment Christian nationalism in America. And, in light of the ground zero mosque controversy, it seems all the more timely: Tens of … Continue reading →

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The Ground-Zero Mosque: Barack Obama Rejects Muslim Collective Guilt for 9-11 and Affirms American Values

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

President Barack Obama does not oppose the building of the Cordoba Mosque a few blocks down from the former site of the World Trade Center. And this is why I support the man. When it counts, Barack Obama is a man of the Enlightenment. … Continue reading →

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What Would Martin Niemoller Say About the Cordoba Mosque Near the 9-11 Site?

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

What would the German Protestant Pastor, Martin Niemöller, say about contemporary Christian nationalists (which I would call American Herderites) who brand their fellow American Muslims with collective guilt for 9-11, and seek to prevent them, because of this collective guilt, from … Continue reading →

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