Dr. Benny Peiser 11.09.2007 10:32 +Feedback
Islamisierung und Radikalisierung: Steht Europa vor libanesischen Verhältnissen?
Near the end of Carol Reed’s 1949 noir classic The Third Man, Harry Lime, played by a brooding Orson Welles, disembarks from a Vienna Ferris wheel and delivers the film’s best-remembered soliloquy. Pondering the relative merits of a libertine society, Lime muses that Italy was once governed by the House of Borgia, yet managed to produce “Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance,” while the studiously inoffensive Swiss ” had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.” (Which, incidentally, is of German provenance.)
Indeed, Switzerland’s international reputation has long been one of neutrality, dubious banking regulations and superior watch-making; a remarkably harmonious, multilingual country with postcard vistas and little violent crime. And as such, it’s often...
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