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#1 Submitted by Jason T on June 4, 2018 - 3:34am

Comparing a group of people to cancer and disease, that requires treatment and elimination is reminiscent of the rhetoric to be found in national socialist Germany of the 1930s and 1940s. I am surprised that the good Professor Halik would think in this way. Then again maybe this is not so surprising.

Society’s immune system against extremism is failing

Moral and cultural organisations such as universities must strive harder to rid the body politic of populist infection, in central Europe and elsewhere, says Tomáš Halík

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Society’s immune system against extremism is failing

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