For moderate Muslims, it is "faith without reason" or violent fundamentalism.The same officials also insist that the German lecture was not a deliberate provocation.
The scary thing about that option though, while temporarily deeply fulfilling perhaps to Greeks angry over German lecturing and to Germans angry over Greek profligacy, is that no one knows what the ripple effects will be.
He set himself up on the German lecture circuit as the learned Herr Doktor May.For a time even May's publisher was taken in some scholars have suggested that May himself was too.
His first operational posting was relatively pleasant: a two-year appointment as englischer Dozent at a provincial German university: lectures on Keats and vacations in Bavarian hunting lodges with groups of earnest and solemnly promiscuous German students.
In Germany, Mr Vilar is about to announce a major gift to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and undertake a six-city tour, at the invitation of the German government, lecturing to audiences raised on arts subsidies why they should look with favour on enlightened philanthropy.
Peter gave the Germans a lecture on Californian politics that lasted more than an hour, and didn't mention Ceiling/Sky once".
On the other hand, perhaps the case of Grass illustrates that it was sometimes those Germans who lectured others most loudly about the need to engage with the past who were themselves trying the hardest to escape from it.
I had a year to learn enough German to understand lectures, so the pressure was on, but it also helped to have a goal to work towards.
Just a few years ago, German engineers gave lectures on the dangers of cup holders -- concentrate on the road, silly Americans, not on your lattes.
Nejat (Baki Davrak), whose father, Ali (Tuncel Kurtiz), emigrated from Turkey, is a professor of German literature, giving lectures on Goethe to sleepy college students.
