Koenraad Elst

Monday, August 31, 2009

No more handshakes

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In the Netherlands, and no doubt other countries as well, Muslims have drawn attention to themselves by refusing to shake hands with women o...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

Delhi, Dilli, Indraprastha

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The elite that affects cosmopolitan airs derides de restoration of pre-colonial names or name forms for cities as "provincial" or ...
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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Clenardus and the way out of Islam

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When I write that we don’t have much to fear from the Islamic aggressor, one reaction I often get is that I am overly and unduly optimistic...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Swat Valley and the prospects of Islamic conquest

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The normalization of life in the Swat Valley, where the inhabitants are returning to their homes after fleeing the military confrontation be...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

May '68 and the moon landing

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Last year's memorial events of May '68 have rarely paid attention to its connection with a development celebrated today, on the 40th...
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Funerals hip and classical

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Yesterday, Amsterdam and the whole Dutch speech community, as well as the spiritualist network worldwide, said farewell to hippie poet Simon...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Nietzsche and Mohammed

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When Nietzsche started hearing voices, his career as philosopher ended. When Mohammed started hearing voices, his career as prophet began.
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Koenraad Elst
Koenraad Elst (°Leuven 1959) distinguished himself early on as eager to learn and to dissent. After a few hippie years he studied at the KU Leuven, obtaining MA degrees in Sinology, Indology and Philosophy. After a research stay at Benares Hindu University he did original fieldwork for a doctorate on Hindu nationalism, which he obtained magna cum laude in 1998. As an independent researcher he earned laurels and ostracism with his findings on hot items like Islam, multiculturalism and the secular state, the roots of Indo-European, the Ayodhya temple/mosque dispute and Mahatma Gandhi's legacy. He also published on the interface of religion and politics, correlative cosmologies, the dark side of Buddhism, the reinvention of Hinduism, technical points of Indian and Chinese philosophies, various language policy issues, Maoism, the renewed relevance of Confucius in conservatism, the increasing Asian stamp on integrating world civilization, direct democracy, the defence of threatened freedoms, and the Belgian question. Regarding religion, he combines human sympathy with substantive skepticism.
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