As religious violence deepens in his home country, Nobel laureate and Nigerian political activist Wole Soyinka shares his thoughts on why England is a “cesspit”:
"England is a cesspit. England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows it. Remember, that country was the breeding ground for communism, too. Karl Marx did all his work in libraries there."
Why is Britain the way it is? "This is part of the character of Great Britain," Mr. Soyinka declares. "Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness." And so it is, he says, that Britain lets everyone preach whatever they want: It confirms a self-image of greatness.
from The Daily Beast website
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pot... kettle?
Honoured Wole Soyinka,
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HE'S A UTTER NUTTER
Yes, Marx did his empirical work in Britain funded by one of the foremost Manchester capitalists, and he predicted that Britain would be the first country to experience socialist revolution.
Yet such intellectual tolerance enabled the moral resistance to the worst excesses promoted by ideologies such as Marx's as it has done through many ages.
Quite simply I like listening openly because I like laughing openly.
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