Hugh Fitzgerald: First thoughts on the debate, “We Should Not Be Reluctant to Assert the Superiority of Western Values” https://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/10/fitzgerald-first-thoughts-on-the-debate-we-should-not-be-reluctant-to-assert-the-superiority-of-west
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For Sen is an example of the Indian who becomes famous in the Great World and who wants to make sure that he can never be accused of what in India is called “communalism,” but which really means all those Hindus who are aware of their being Hindus, and aware too of what Islam did to India’s civilization of Hinduism, a way of life and thought rather than a religion as we understand it in the West.

— Amartya Sen

What It Means

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Amartya Sen

About Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen (born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for economics.