The Clash Within
A very nice interview with Martha Nussbaum: The Clash within - Islam and Hinduism in India , on Australian national radio. Martha Nussbaum : Yes, I think Gandhi was a tremendous genius of human perception. He understood that often when violence breaks out it's all about men, in particular, being eager to show their manliness by showing that they can bash others, and what he tried to convey--and did successfully convey as long as he lived--to his followers, was that being a real man doesn't mean learning how to bash others, it means learning to stand up with nothing but your naked human dignity around you and endure, if you have to, the blows of others. Stephen Crittenden : The British novelist Martin Amis has described contemporary Islam as "quivering with male sexual insecurity." You in a way, show that exactly the same process has been operating in Hindu India. Martha Nussbaum : Yes, and I think it was compounded in this case by the fact that the British really desp...