Monday, August 30, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Nick Cohen: Radical Islam's Fellow-Travellers [re: Tariq Ramadan and Ayaan Hirsi Ali] - 'Contemplating with his customary scorn the artists who had embraced the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky wondered what it would take to break their attachment to a cause that would eventually murder many of them -- and kill Trotsky too, although he was yet to know it. "As regards a fellow-traveller," he said, "the question always comes up -- how far will he go?" Would the barbarism of the dictatorship of the proletariat persuade him to "change at one of the stations on to the train going the other way"? Or would he stay on for the rest of the ride?...'
