Slate has an intriguing look at the historical reaction to that rather sublime group of business people the Rotarians. Through the years since the founding of the service organization in 1905 in Chicago, it seems somebody somewhere has been busy casting a suspicuous eye at what they perceive to be the real motives of those who join.
The current Rotarian backlash it seems is in the fundamentalist Islamic world, where the likes of Osama Bin Laden and those belonging to Hamas all find evil in everything that a Rotarian may do.
It's a rather interesting look at how perception can change to hard dogma, without a lot of evidence to make your case.
Slate offers up both an on line version and a podcast on the story Check both out here.
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