Monday, April 20, 2009
The Mumbai Attacks XXI (The Nurturing Community)
It is somehow fitting that, as this series is nearing its end, the same Blogger who asked for the ‘what’ of the solution also asked about the ‘how’. Ciel writes: "What?" is an easier question to answer than "How?" It isn't as if Western cultures have no experience altering or attempting to alter the...
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
The Mumbai Attacks XX (The Nurturing Community)
Finally we’re arriving at the most important and also most difficult part of Ciel’s comment, namely at her questions. Here they are again: “It comes down to this: What do you suggest be done about it? What do you think Western governments can do about it? To begin with, and to be absolutely clear on...
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Sunday, April 5, 2009
The Mumbai Attacks XIX (The Nurturing Community)
For the last couple of weeks I have had intermittent computer problems, which is why I wasn’t around much. An hour here, a couple of hours there, to deal with matters I simply have to attend to, including brief visits to Blogit, before taking the box back to my guru for further treatment. He had...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
The Mumbai Attacks XVIII (The Nurturing Community)
We are now finally getting to Ciel’s comment, which I will have to deal with at some length. Here’s Ciel’s comment once more: “It comes down to this: What do you suggest be done about it? What do you think Western governments can do about it? The notion of a "just war" is a harder and harder sell,...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
The Mumbai Attacks XVII (The Nurturing Community)
In my last post I promised to address the comments and questions put by several Bloggers, and what follows will to some degree do that, but my answers will have to be brief. For I read TAPS’ post a little earlier today, here, http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Taps_dance/602501, and she reminded...
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Saturday, March 14, 2009
The Mumbai Attacks XVI (The Nurturing Community)
As has been the case so often with this series, the few who do read them frequently offer comments that simply must be addressed. So it was again with the previous post, where metalrat’s, bythewindowsill’s comments and also in particular Ciel’s question forced me to re-examine my thinking. And as...
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Saturday, March 7, 2009
The Mumbai Attacks XV (The Nurturing Community)
I owe my few readers an apology! Circumstances beyond my control have prevented me from spending much time on Blogit, making it difficult to read and comment, let alone write. But I do want to continue with this series and bring it to a conclusion soon, even if not today. You may recall that, prior...
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
The Mumbai Attacks XIV (A Brief Lesson in History)
While this is not directly connected to the topic of this series, I think you will recognize its relevance. *** I had lunch with some acquaintances yesterday. After we had dealt with ‘official’ matters, we sat around, had a few drinks and chatted, since it was Friday, and nobody was in a hurry....
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Sunday, February 8, 2009
The Mumbai Attacks XIII (The Nurturing Community)
I ended the previous part with a question, which I shall paraphrase here: what makes radical and moderate Muslims read the same text, the Koran, differently? What makes one justify the most violent actions by referring to a text which to the other one is merely an exhortation to lead a spiritual...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Mumbai Attacks XII (The Nurturing Community)
Having given my readers (the five people who actually read the previous part) the chance to recover from the shock of the quotes I served up recently, I shall now, in the interest of fairness as much as that of intellectual integrity, offer up some opposing evidence. Those of you who have followed...
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