“It seems to be a general law of modern life that those who hate and fear Jews are condemned to backwardness and irrelevance: not, as anti-Semitic loons pathetically imagine, because Jewish cabals manipulate capitalism to frustrate their enemies, but because without intellectual clarity and a sincerely tolerant worldview, it is very difficult to prosper in a world like ours.”
Walter Russell Mead on his blog Via Meadia in a post of October 7, 2011, that highlights an article by the Egyptian journalist Sharif ‘Abd Al-Ghani who criticizes Muslim preachers demonizing Jews.