Article: Multiculturalism and the dhimmi.

TWO VALUABLE lessons have been learnt from the recent controversy involving Keith Windschuttle. The first is that one should get one's facts right before venturing into print. The second is that one should not use, and abuse, history for current political purposes. The first loyalty of all good historians should be to truth. We need not go as far as Simone Weil, who argued that intellectuals who told lies should be subject to prosecution by some sort of tribunal. But nevertheless historians, like any academics who venture into the realm of media political crusades as "public intellectuals", should be aware of their obligations to their profession and to the public to whom ...

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