Saturday, January 27, 2007
Bush's reading material
I noted in the "Deccan Herald" that on August 2005 it was said that President George Bush apparently read "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky during his five-week summer sojourn on his Texas ranch.
Kurlansky is best known as the author of "Nonviolence", an idea which he largely agrees with and claims that Governments have always used the excuse of nationhood for inflicting violence. He also traces religious history. Islam, for example, he states allegedly turned the notion of Jihad from a concept denoting personal struggle for self-betterment into one justifying violence.
Kurlansky is best known as the author of "Nonviolence", an idea which he largely agrees with and claims that Governments have always used the excuse of nationhood for inflicting violence. He also traces religious history. Islam, for example, he states allegedly turned the notion of Jihad from a concept denoting personal struggle for self-betterment into one justifying violence.
# posted by uv : 11:56 PM
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