Negative Positive
Title: Excellent analysis of Extreme Fundamentalism
Review: As I read the protests from those who feel Bloom is unfair in his portrayal of the Hasidic Jews, I thought how strange that the only group that can ever be assailed without protest is the middle-of-the-road American. If Bloom's conclusion had been that those Iowa farm folk were all to blame and totally anti-sematic, I doubt there would have been any objection. Bloom wrote what he saw and was courageous in coming up with conclusions that he knew would cause others to accuse him of being biased.What I got from this book is a fundamental question of when is the protection the rights of individual fundamental sects more important than the cultural values of a country. As we deal with extreme Muslims, extreme Christians, any extreme religious group, is there never a time when there are basic values of the greater culure that deserve to be protected and perserved?
Is the review positive or negative? 