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Last month, Huang Qi, an Internet entrepreneur arrested for posting articles criticizing the Communist Party, and four young intellectuals who made up the "New Youth Study Group" to hold online discussions about political reform, were sentenced to long prison terms.
For that, Daoud has been saddled with a double fatwa: one from his “assassin brothers,” to borrow the Algerian-French journalist Mohamed Sifaoui’s phrase, and another from a handful of supposedly progressive and anti-racist French intellectuals who accused him of “recycling the most hackneyed clichés of Orientalism” when he urged Arab men to respect the dignity of women.
This controversy keeps left-wing intellectuals, pundits, and politicians busy on television talk shows and in café debates across Europe.
The stated motives of the intellectuals who created it were not racist; they did not assume Jews to be biologically inferior.
Not only is the public almost entirely ignorant of the EU’s policy agenda for boosting competitiveness, economic growth, and employment, but this ignorance extends to many intellectuals, academics, CEO’s, and even some MP’s.
As the violence of the social mobilizations and the level of discontent have grown, Bolivia's intellectuals and politicians remain in a state of shock, afraid of contradicting the masses.
But recently the pressure has intensified, especially with the publication of “Charter 08,” a manifesto signed by hundreds of Chinese intellectuals, journalists, lawyers, and ordinary citizens, condemning the government’s human rights record and demanding more democratic reform, press freedom, governmental transparency, and societal openness.
Some people meet these requirements; others don't, regardless of whether or not they are intellectuals.
To sum up: the less our time favours politicians who engage in long-term thinking, the more such politicians are needed, and thus the more intellectuals - at least those meeting my definition – should be welcomed in politics.
It must be said that there are intellectuals who possess a very special ability for committing this evil.
Let us remember how many intellectuals helped to create the various modern dictatorships!
In the realm of such politics, intellectuals should make their presence felt in one of two possible ways;They could - without finding it shameful or demeaning - accept a political office and use that position to do what they deem right, not just to hold on to power.
Or they could be the ones who hold up a mirror to those in authority, making sure that the latter serve a good thing and that they do not begin to use fine words as a cloak for evil deeds, as happened to so many intellectuals in politics in the past centuries.
His government has also detained an array of public intellectuals who have been critical of its policies, including cyber-dissidents Liu Di and Shi Tao (who was arrested thanks to Yahoo’s collaboration with the police in identifying him) and freelance writers Yu Jie and Liu Xiaobo.
The list, dominated by intellectuals who in the 1990’s had called for freedom of speech and political participation, appeared with the statement: “This is the time when China is facing the most problems in its unprecedented transformation, and when it most needs public intellectuals to be on the scene and to speak out.”
It attacked the concept of “public intellectuals,” claiming that their “independence drives a wedge” between intellectuals and the Party and between intellectuals and the masses.
But its reaction to the book A Survey of Chinese Peasants, which is based on interviews over several years with farmers in the poor province of Anhui, was a telling reminder that public intellectuals are not welcome to contribute to that effort.
What the small crowd of intellectuals gathered in Paris was mourning was their hope for a different Russia.
We were burying the collective dream of intellectuals and democrats for a Russia where freedom and the rule of law would, after a long and cold Soviet winter, take root and bloom.
Perhaps more important, it has relied on seasoned intellectuals and policymakers – not Party ideologues – to design its development roadmap.
The protests by artists, intellectuals and opposition politicians that followed were the biggest political upheavals since 1989.
Every time journalists or intellectuals have tried to take him on in public debate, they have lost.
The Worldly PhilosophersJohn Maynard Keynes, perhaps the greatest political economist of the 20th century, once said that in the long run, the course of history is determined as much by ideas and intellectuals as by politicians.
Thus, the political effect of intellectuals is rarely immediate.
The old alliance between intellectual idealists and trade unions gave way to rainbow coalitions of intellectuals, non-whites, feminists, and gays.
Roy and Washiqur are far from the first Bengali intellectuals to face the Islamists’ particular brand of censorship.
Many Bangladeshi intellectuals have seen the writing on the wall and fled the country, sacrificing daily contact with their rich cultural heritage for the sake of self-preservation.
Public intellectuals are not the only people in danger.
Though the government is seen as sympathetic to liberal intellectuals, it is also anxious to maintain law and order and avoid provoking the extremists.
Despite the fact that most refugees come from Arab lands known for their anti-Semitism and anti-Israel stance, Jewish intellectuals in this camp have been unanimous in welcoming them with open arms.
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