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Re: 7 years old Iranian genius



You will be surprised to knew how may Muslims turned to Marxism


At 03:20 PM 5/1/1999 -0400, you wrote:

>

>Perhaps with an in-depth understanding of the Koran the boy will be in a

>better position to criticize the text.

>

>On Sat, 1 May 1999, Katha Pollitt wrote:

>

>>too bad the iranian boy 'genius" is spending all that brain power on

>>memorizing --and interpreting --the Koran! There are Christian

>>fundamentalist boys who are trained by their fanatical parents to do

>>this with the bible, to preach sermons etc. Orthodox jewish boys are

>>also  given major doses of religion at very young ages. I think such

>>kids are victims of child abuse.  I saw that BBC report -- and when I

>>saw that little boy carried around on the shoulders of grownup men, and

>>fussed over and catered to -- I thought, this story is not going to have

>>a happy end.

>>

>>What would karl marx say about this, i wonder?

>>

>

>

<bold><italic>The foucaldien ethos  has already reached  his/her  eternal
 utopia in the "present".  No need for further move!

</italic></bold>




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