/politics/fighting-islamophobia-with-islamofactism-a-new-10-part-series/ Fact-based, well-reasoned perspectives from around the world Fri, 26 Sep 2025 22:42:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /politics/fighting-islamophobia-with-islamofactism-a-new-10-part-series/#comment-40641 Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:57:10 +0000 /?p=157106#comment-40641 Focusing on a word to define something much vaster is a perilous exercise, if not accompanied by a sense of irony. That’s why I would invite my readers never to take seriously the definitions I propose in my Devil’s Dictionary. Belief in sets of proposed facts is also a perilous commitment, akin to what religious fundamentalist do. As for Europe losing its way on every issue, proposing that as a fact seems to be me to be justified and worth discussing. However, expecting Europe or any other political entity to be a purveyor of facts or a guarantor of facts would be a betrayal of the very notion of truth, which is qualitatively different from facts, as most sages, from Plato to Wittgenstein and Lacan have insisted.

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