“Trembling, he waited for the terror to abate, and Khadija held him in her arms, soothing him and trying to take his fear away. All the sources emphasise Muhammad’s profound dependence on Khadija during this crisis. ”
-Karen Armstrong; “Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet”, p84.
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‘Becoming Eichmann’ by David Cesarani - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times:
Eichmann’s ordinariness proved that normality was no protection against the commission of terrible crimes. “It would have been very comforting indeed to believe that Eichmann was a monster,” she writes; melodrama, after all, with its white hats and black hats, is a form of absolution. But she will have none of that. She points an accusing finger at us all. So does Cesarani. Under the right circumstances, normal people will commit mass murder, he says, and the circumstances of our age — with its racism, ethnic cleansing, suicide bombers and genocidal killings — are ominous. “Eichmann appears more and more like a man of our time,” are his concluding words. “Everyman as génocidaire.”
An enthralling review of ‘Becoming Eichmann’ by David Cesarani that compares this, the first full biography of Eichmann since the 1960’s, to the seminal work done by Hannah Arendt for the New Yorker and later in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem. It is a fascinating look into both the scholarly discourse surrounding this particular facet of Holocaust history, as well as the broader questions such topics raise regarding the nature of evil, (and of course, how that informs our view of Eichmann).
(Via The New York Times.)
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