Greg Gutfeld Quotes
Do you ever see a right-wing kid violently jumping lefty speakers? On campus, you either have silent appeasement or a bruise.
Gutfeld, Greg. The Gutfeld Monologues: Classic Rants from the Five. Threshold Editions, 2018.
This is a classic example of one of the many politicians of the 20th and 21st century who would call anyone a communist who opposed anything that he regarded as American. In actuality, there were some very conservative economists and shareholders who did not think that the funding of celebrations had little or no value for shareholders. Many on the left were concerned that the celebration was in great part paid for by all Americans because of the tax deduction that was allowed. However none were communists.
The two were cousins. Wilhelm was a very dominant personality and his cousin quite weak. This quotation shows the tyrannical view of the German Kaiser. The letters were secret but after the execution of the Czar, the Russians released the letters to show the dominant and warlike history of Germany under the Kaiser who was furious that the Russians had made such personal and secret letters public.
From the latter part of the 20th century onward, religious nationalism was no longer a force for most religions and nations except Muslim countries. It was the only religion left where a large proportion of the adherents saw no distinction between the religion and the government. Nations that had separation of church and state were not conducive to the extreme fundamentalist form of Islam where the Secular Leader and the Religious leader was to be embodied as a single person. As a result Islamic religious nationalists argued for a Theocracy and at times fought for it with violent means. The secular government typically, to curtail the violence and prevent a religious takeover, often outlawed the extreme religious Islamic parties. While Aslan cites the Muslim Brotherhood failure in Egypt as a desirable outcome, the only way the other forces of Egyptian society could prevent the Islamists from taking over turning the country into a theocracy was to forcefully repress the extremists. The Turkish outcome was much better, but there was the threat of repression of the Justice and Development Party when it won a majority control of the government. There were explicit threats that if it tried to weaken the secular nature of the government as Ataturk had formulated it, the military would come “out of the barracks” and oust the government as they had done before. There were nations like China which persecuted religions such as certain forms of Christianity, but those religions were not fighting for religious nationalism. They only wished the freedom to practice their religion and had no program or theology that argued for Christianizing the government. The Tamil Hindus of Sri Lanka did not want a Hindu government and were perfectly free to practice their religion. The problem was that they felt that there was systemic social and economic discrimination against the Tamils and they fought for independence—not of a Hindu state, but of a secular, nondiscriminatory state of equal opportunity.
Gregory John Gutfeld is an American television host, producer, political commentator, and author. He is the host of the late-night talk show Gutfeld! and one of five co-hosts and panelists on the political talk show The Five, both of which air on the Fox News Channel. From 2007 to 2015, Gutfeld hosted Red Eye, a late-night talk show that also aired on the Fox News Channel.
