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   '...intellectuals have dreamed of another and, in their eyes, superior way   
   of ordering the future of mankind, through global institutions that discount   
   all the divisions and discords of history. Intellectuals easily think in   
   this way, especially if they have been educated by the Enlightenment   
   curriculum which tells them that no national or religious culture has a   
   monopoly of the truth.   
   But ordinary people are neither the beneficiaries of that kind of education   
   nor able to offer their sparse supply of charity to all-comers. They feel   
   solidarity with what is close to them, historically bound up with them, and   
   trustworthy because self-evidently beside them on the sea of fate. That is   
   the feeling from which national loyalty arose, and which made it possible to   
   put nationality above religion in the allegiances of European people.   
   Religion, after all, is no foundation for democracy, and we should be   
   thankful that European history has made nationality available to us, since   
   that is what made democracy possible. And - to return to Anthony Barnett &   
   Isabel Hilton's article which opened this debate - it seems to me that they   
   did not emphasise, as they should, the real threat to democracy that is now   
   posed, by the steady capture of social territory by the Islamists, for whom   
   national loyalty, which tells us to tolerate religious difference, is an   
   offence against God.'   
      
   http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-opening/fundamentals_3112.jsp   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)