WHAT WE’RE DEFENDING A Letter from Makkah In Response to the Open Letter from Sixty American Intellectuals There is nothing worse than violating moral values such as freedom and peace, except that the elite group which has chosen itself as defenders of these values are willing instruments of despotism and violence; and nobody is worse than politicians who hurl themselves and their peoples into the flames of hostilities and wars, except for educators and academics who justify what they do. If this is the case in the land of freedom and democracy, then it is a case of inversion in the world of values, worse than the disaster of destroying a building or the killing of a few thousand people in the material world. If sixty Soviet intellectuals in the days of Stalin gathered in support of his dictatorial methods it would have been the defect would have been obvious, but in any case it would still be less evil than the gathering of sixty intellectuals from the free world to s...
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