Chomsky takes down Hitchens

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Carrol wrote:
>>  Perhaps someone else can provide the historical data in more detail than
>>  I can, but I have the general impression that religious toleration is
>>  fundamentally a _NON-western_ value, practiced first I think by Islam,
>>  and only adopted, and quite grudgingly, by the west after it had almost
>>  destroyed itself in the religous wars of the 16th and 17th centuries?
>
>True, but I was speaking only of the present moment.  Clearly, in the Dark
>Ages (to point to only one disparate era) religious tolerance didn't figure
>vary prominently in Western "culture" (if you can call it that).
>
>-- Luke

Clearly in the Dark Ages there were neither "the West" nor "the 
Western culture."

Yoshie