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Article: Friday Book: Mad, bad and dangerous (and that's just the FBI) Them: adventures with extremists by Jon Ronson (Picador, pounds 16)
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 25, 2001
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THERE ARE two things to remember about conspiracy theories: first,
they cannot be disproved - lack of evidence simply shows how clever
the conspirators are at covering up; and second, underlying many such
theories is at least a grain of truth.
Them is a companion to Jon Ronson's fascinating Channel 4 series,
The Secret Rulers of the World. Ronson has talked to a variety of
extremists, most of whom believe the world is run by a powerful group
of Jews known as the New World Order, the Illuminati, Zog (Zionist
Occupied Government) or the Bilderberg Group. Ronson is Jewish, a
point that comes home uncomfortably when Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed
announces it to followers in the secret Islamic ...