Intellectuals
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In the 1970s, under the Pol Pot regime, the Khmer Rouge killed over a million people, and they focused and targeted the elites and the
intellectuals
, the artists, the dancers.
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These were
intellectuals
or statesmen of the 19th century, and later, 20th century, which looked at Europe, basically, and saw that Europe has many things to admire, like science and technology.
These Muslim thinkers,
intellectuals
and statesmen of the 19th century, looked at Europe, saw these things, and said, "Why don't we have these things?"
That trend is generally called Islamic modernism, and it was advanced by
intellectuals
and statesmen, not just as an intellectual idea, though, but also as a political program.
To do so is to court a certain amount of derision, because I have found that
intellectuals
hate progress.
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