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A wide variety of extremist groups -- Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis -- share the oddly similar belief that a tiny shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room. In Them, journalist Jon Ronson has joined the extremists to track down the fabled secret room. As a journalist and a Jew,... read more
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- Omar Bakri: Add a description of this character.
- Jim Tucker
- Thom Robb
- David Icke
- Dr. Paisley
- Alex.
- Mike
- Tony Kaye
- Rachel
- Mr. Ru Ru
- Bilderberg
- Henrick
- Randy Weaver
- Anna
- Sammy
- Ian Paisley
- Rupert
- Vicki
- Marty
- Jack
- Jon
- Gail
- Josh
- Brian
- Richard
- David Mcilveen
- Bo Gritz
- Jeff Berry
- Violet
- Michael
- Joseph
- Mary
- Paul
- Henry Kissinger
- Eugene
- Dennis
- Joe
- Keeley
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“One thing you quickly learn about them is that they really don't like being called extremists. In fact they often tell me that we are the real extremists. They say that the Western liberal cosmopolitan establishment is itself a fanatical, depraved belief system. I like it when they say this because it makes me feel as if I have a belief system. - p. 13”
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‘Let’s face it,’ my deep throat had said to me, ‘nobody rules the world any more. The markets rule the world. Maybe that’s why your conspiracy theorists make up all those crazy things. Because the truth is so much more frightening. Nobody rules the world. Nobody controls anything.’
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Thank God I don’t believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did.
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They say that the Western liberal cosmopolitan establishment is itself a fanatical, depraved belief system. I like it when they say this because it makes me feel as if I have a belief system.
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It has been estimated that 25 per cent of all Klansmen are undercover federal officers.
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These people might have reached the apex of their professions but emotionally they seemed to be trapped in their college years. I wondered whether the Bohemians shroud themselves in secrecy for reasons no more sinister than that they thought it was cool.
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‘Romania,’ said Eugene, ‘was twenty million people living inside the imagination of a madman.’
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The Jews are metaphors now. You no longer need to be Jewish to be a Jew.
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I realized just how central these conspiracy theories were to the practice of terrorism in the Western world.
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I think that in David Icke, Michael was seeing an omen of the blackest kind. He was seeing the future of thought itself: a time when irrational thought would sweep the land, much as racism had done the previous century, when Washington, DC was a blaze of white, the white of a million Ku Klux Klansmen marching past a Klan-friendly White House and a Klan-friendly Capitol Hill.
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Still, it was surprising to find myself in a situation where I was toning down my Jewish character traits so as not to alienate myself from a Ku Klux Klan leader who reminded me of Woody Allen.
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Setting & Locations edit
- America
- Britain
- London Arena
- Portugal
- Hollywood
- Waco
- Caesar Park
- Ruby Ridge
- Vancouver
- England
- United States
- Idaho
- Israel
- Klan
- Romania
- Washington
- New York
- Cameroon
- Soho
- Michigan
- Saudi Arabia
- Oklahoma City
- Dallas
- Torquay
- Northern Ireland
- Africa
- Estoril
- Kenya
- White House
- Europe
- Islam
- Germany
- Tibet
- Austin
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First Sentence edit
IT WAS A BALMY Saturday afternoon in Trafalgar Square in the summertime, and Omar Bakri Mohammed was declaring Holy War on Britain.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jon Ronson (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Picador
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 330
Publisher: Picador
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 330
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- Dewey: 320
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