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Thus far, the ICL’s position is consistent with a class analysis and shows genuine empathy for the plight of Muslim women. However, after a peripatetic survey of the situation in Europe, Blair’s Iraq war, the Soviet role in Afghanistan and the rise of Osama bin Laden, and a diatribe against multiculturalism, the article goes on to explain the rise of political Islam. It then returns to the question of the veil and says that Islam oppresses women. The ICL views Islam as somehow ‘backward’ and says so explicitly. Jews and Christians have emancipated themselves from religion because of the industrial revolution, but Muslims have yet to do so. This reasoning echoes Bruno Bauer’s argument in “On the Jewish Question” that I have cited in Chapter 1, where he views Jews as backward.
The point here is that such pronouncements are hardly likely to appeal to Muslim youth in the inner cities who see little difference between such language and that used by their skinhead tormentors of the BNP. Many of the Asian Youth Movement were actually members of the rival Trotskist faction, the Socialist Workers Party, in the seventies. Disillusionment with the SWP in the eighties led many to turn to the radical Imams in the ghettos.
One may reject the argument from “cultural embeddedness” but one must cognize the fact that different people have different needs, and this is not a matter of evolutionary stage. Something like gay rights cannot be explained in terms of historical “progress.” The post-colonial critique of Mill’s liberalism could well
Object Description
| Title | Negotiating pluralism and tribalism in liberal democratic societies |
| Author | Sadagopan, Shoba |
| Author email | sadagopa@usc.edu; shobasadagopan@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Philosophy |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-08-22 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-10-15 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Lloyd, Sharon |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Dreher, John Keating, Gregory |
| Abstract | My aim in this dissertation is to enquire whether toleration as a practice is achievable. It is prior to the question of how it can be grounded as a virtue. I argue that in liberal democratic societies where there are struggles for recognition on the part of ethnocultural groups, it is possible to negotiate pluralism and tribalism in a way that a stable pluralist society can be maintained. My core thesis rests on a theory of interdependence based both on a theory of human nature and on the material fact of globalization. Insofar as we affirm our nature as human beings engaged in productive activity with other human beings, insofar as we value a world that facilitates that activity, toleration is desirable. It is achievable because with globalization there is a tendency towards homogenization that erodes cultural differences. There is less reason for conflict because what we have in common, our interdependence, goes far deeper than culture. A further sufficient condition may be found in well thought-out policies that are executed through education and dialogue. |
| Keyword | toleration; value pluralism; liberalism; cultural homogenization; globalization; common citizenship |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1658 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Sadagopan, Shoba |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Sadagopan-2395 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Sadagopan-2395.pdf |
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| Title | Page 156 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 154 Thus far, the ICL’s position is consistent with a class analysis and shows genuine empathy for the plight of Muslim women. However, after a peripatetic survey of the situation in Europe, Blair’s Iraq war, the Soviet role in Afghanistan and the rise of Osama bin Laden, and a diatribe against multiculturalism, the article goes on to explain the rise of political Islam. It then returns to the question of the veil and says that Islam oppresses women. The ICL views Islam as somehow ‘backward’ and says so explicitly. Jews and Christians have emancipated themselves from religion because of the industrial revolution, but Muslims have yet to do so. This reasoning echoes Bruno Bauer’s argument in “On the Jewish Question” that I have cited in Chapter 1, where he views Jews as backward. The point here is that such pronouncements are hardly likely to appeal to Muslim youth in the inner cities who see little difference between such language and that used by their skinhead tormentors of the BNP. Many of the Asian Youth Movement were actually members of the rival Trotskist faction, the Socialist Workers Party, in the seventies. Disillusionment with the SWP in the eighties led many to turn to the radical Imams in the ghettos. One may reject the argument from “cultural embeddedness” but one must cognize the fact that different people have different needs, and this is not a matter of evolutionary stage. Something like gay rights cannot be explained in terms of historical “progress.” The post-colonial critique of Mill’s liberalism could well |
