Wednesday, December 03, 2003

Asia Times -Oil on the flames of civilizational war Politics/ War on Terror/ Neocons
A review of a new collection of the work of Franz Rosenzweig, German theologian and teacher of Leo Strauss.

From the review: "The coming millennium will go down in world history as a struggle between Orient and Occident, between the church and Islam, between the Germanic peoples and the Arabs," proclaimed Franz Rosenzweig in 1920. These ominous words appear in a collection of the German-Jewish theologian's writings about Islam, published in Berlin earlier this year. It is the most dangerous book I have read in a generation, for Rosenzweig (1886-1929) considered Islam a pagan "parody", "caricature" and "plagiarism" of Christianity and Judaism.

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