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Breivik e i suoi apostoli
(Micro Mega) La violenza assassina a cui abbiamo assistito a Utoya il 22 luglio 2011 e poi in decine di episodi simili – un “jihadismo ariano” che ha tutti i segni della brutalità scatenata da ragioni religiose – ha fatto ampio uso della Rete per diffondere il proprio Vangelo del terrore. Una minaccia eversiva alimentata…
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Steve Bannon’s Church and the Construction of a European Christian Right
One of the first spheres of political influence into which Bannon ventured in Europe was the Vatican. Before he took the role for which he would become famous at the helm of the Trump presidential campaign in 2016, Bannon had spent a decade at the helm of Breitbart News building a propaganda machine that had…
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US envoy to Germany is a threat, not a joke
(Politico.eu) In Europe, the natural allies of Trump’s brand of conservatism — defined by its xenophobia and calls for a “return” to national greatness — are to be found on the far right. It’s understandable, then, that politicians across the political spectrum interpreted Grenell’s comments as a declaration of allegiance to right-wing populist, nationalist and anti-EU…
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Germany’s dangerous ‘new anti-Semitism’
(Politico.eu) For many Germans, the country’s post-war reconstruction was as much moral as it was economic and political. The effort to atone for the crimes of World War II — and to stamp out anti-Semitism — has defined the country’s politics for the last 50 years. Read on Politico.eu
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The Value of French Secularism
(Politico.eu) One of the problems of Anglophone attempts to read France’s sécularisme through its English false cognate is the conflation of two very different projects. Where American secularism has mainly been interested in protecting religions from the state, the French version is meant to protect the state from religion. In his article “France’s secular ayatollahs”…