Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price was right. Nick Cohen More Quotes by Nick Cohen More Quotes From Nick Cohen London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm. Nick Cohen land real ideas Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have shown. Many other alleged religious 'hatreds' are not hatreds in the true sense. If I criticise Islamic, Orthodox Jewish or Catholic attitudes towards women, for instance, and I'm accused of being a bigot, I shrug and say it is not bigoted to oppose bigotry. Nick Cohen islamic religious attitude The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz. Nick Cohen global-warming finals men No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are. Nick Cohen islamists Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism. Nick Cohen shallow marxist late
