This book brings a breath of intelligence, nuance and details of the welcome in a public space increasingly asphyxiated by a populist and reactionary discourse pollution from all edges. Faced with judgments punch about religious fundamentalism from the three monotheistic religions in the 21st century, the two authors opt for comprehensive and detailed analysis. Their work offers excellent argument to counter the propaganda caricatures of part of the intelligentsia attempted by extreme and whose members pose as political correctness destroyers. If you are looking for real "politically incorrect", so forget the hyper-publicized polemicists and these self-proclaimed champions of the people who try to impose their reactionary conformism outdated by passing their hackneyed prejudices and their phantasmagorical vision of the world to the realities the so-called elite refuse to see. Instead, read this book, based on serious and rigorous analysis of facts verifiable and traceable.
Their research brought the two authors propose a reading grid, sticking more to the reality that our countries are facing, as the one that predominates in current debates. Instead of a clash of civilizations, they put forward the idea of an international trench warfare between defenders of secularism as the basis of our modern democracies to make cohabit various lifestyles in harmony and theocrats, attempting to by all means impose their dogma to all of their fellow citizens. They insist so strongly on the similarities between Jewish fundamentalists, Christians and Muslims, all of which aim to establish theocracies. They also show very clearly that differences in methods and tangible results derive less sacred texts in which these movements call for, as the socio-political and historical contexts more or less favorable to their actions in which they operate.
Their very thorough investigation reveals astonishing ideological and discursive convergences see sometimes downright same associative or institutional movements between Jewish fundamentalists, Christian and Islamic! Thus, at the UN, Christian fundamentalists and Muslim coordinate their efforts to derail all initiatives in favor of women's rights, particularly in the areas of abortion and contraception, or gay rights, which are still severely persecuted in many member countries. In France, fundamentalist Christians and Muslims join forces against unions between persons of the same sex or to demand schedules for women in some public swimming pools. In the USA, the Christian premillennialists very actively encourage the Israeli extreme right to restore Greater Israel, while in Israel itself, non-Zionist Jewish fundamentalists, honnissant the idea of a state governed by law men, support Hamas in its efforts to establish a Palestinian state dominated by the law of God! This does not prevent these movements to publicly vilify each other in that better-best in the general media and not looking too!
Overall, this book provides an analysis summarizing the various facets of the issue of religious fundamentalism today, but without falling into caricature or overgeneralization. Foot- notes abound, which tracks the hard work of investigation of the two authors. At the end of the book, a very supplied bibliography gives an opportunity to the interested reader to explore these themes and reassembling the tracks they followed.
A call into the hands of those seeking to see things a little clearer in matters related to the socio-political impact of religious fanaticism of our day who are tired of simplistic and spooky speech!
