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Originally Posted by DtheP47
There's a book by Hannah Arendht called The Banality of Evil the theme being the strange relationship between idiocy and evil..
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That would be Hannah Arendt, "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil." I don't really agree with your "theme", but what the heck.
Problem with her thesis is that allows for the "I was only following orders" excuse. Other theses suggest that even ordinary people can be evil when they fall for an evil ideology ... you know, Nazism, racism, Stalinism, and certain interpretations of Islam, which, if they are "minority", they are a sizeable one, strong in Pakistan (a failed state if ever there was one) in particular. Daniel Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust" is a fascinating read, and it suggests other ways of looking at the realtionship between militant Islam and "ordinary" muslims.