Are Jews unique in seeing themselves as special, even superior in certain ways?
• Civilizations like those of Rome and China, to say nothing of smaller-scale societies like those of the Hebrews, the Navaho and the Kwakiutl, felt that their communities and cultures were superior to all others. – from THE MODERNITY OF ETHNIC IDENTITY AND CONFLICT, by Fred W. Riggs, professor emeritus of Political Science at the University of Hawaii. • The nationhood of such people [Arabs] is founded on racial superiority because unless they feel exalted over other people, they cannot pronounce and enforce the superiority of their Prophet over other nations – the sole purpose of this exercise… Hoisting the flag of racial superiority for igniting the undying flame of national bigotry, hatred and jealousy is a favourite, fruitful and frightening tool of prophethood.
