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An '''Enemy of humanity''' is a person, entity or group of persons who, in the opinion of the speaker or author, has a widespread and extremely negative effect on the rest of the human race.

Examples of such designations include:

* "the Jew" who according to [[Adolf Hitler]] was "the real enemy who menaces the world today".  Hitler wrote that "we must devote ourselves to arousing general indignation against the maleficent enemy of humanity" <ref>Ch XIII of Vol II of [[Mein Kampf]]</ref>

* [[Pope Benedict XVI]] who according to [[Richard Dawkins]] is "is an enemy of humanity", in particular "an enemy of children...gay people...women...truth...the poorest people on the planet...science...the Queen's own church..[and] of education"<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/sep/22/ratzinger-enemy-humanity Ratzinger is an enemy of humanity] [[The Guardian]]  22 September 2010</ref>

* Rep. Trent Franks described [[President Obama]] as "an enemy of humanity" <ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/29/gop-rep-trent-franks-call_n_302713.html GOP Rep. Trent Franks Calls Obama "An Enemy Of Humanity"] [[Huffington Post]] 09-29-09</ref>

* [[Fidel Castro]] called the United States an "Enemy of Humanity" <ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=enobAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QU4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5117,5787917&dq=enemy-of-humanity&hl=en 'Castro calls US "Enemy of Humanity"] The Times-News - Aug 24, 1960</ref>

* [[Ayatollah Khomeini]] described [[President Carter]] as an "enemy of humanity"<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ItYzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZusFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2055,163302&dq=enemy-of-humanity&hl=en The Miami News - Nov 12, 1979]</ref>

The analogous legal term is [[Hostis humani generis]] which historically was applied to pirates and has been applied to torturers.

==Books and Academic Discussion==
The concept of "Enemy of humanity" has been extensively discussed in books and academic papers.  For example:

* ''Enemies of humanity: the nineteenth-century war on terrorism'' Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 Is a collection of essays about "the definition and origins of terrorism, broadening the field to include slave revolts and urban tensions, and considering how the " war on terrorism" had already matured by 1870 as a way to justify often bloody campaigns against labor unions, nationalist freedom fighters, and reformers."<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=w4TaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Enemy+of+humanity%22+-inpublisher:icon&dq=%22Enemy+of+humanity%22+-inpublisher:icon&as_brr=0&cd=6 Google books]</ref>

* [[Nick Bostrom]] describes ageing as the "enemy of humanity"<ref>[http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant] [[Nick Bostrom]] [[Journal of Medical Ethics]] , 2005, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp 273-277</ref> which is cited as a "clever portrayal"<ref>[http://jetpress.org/volume14/daly.pdf Life-Extension in Transhumanist and Christian perspectives: Consonance and Conflict] Journal of Evolution and Technology 14(2) August 2005</ref>

* [[Jacques Derrida]] argued that "there is no enemy of humanity" <ref>''Politics of friendship'' [[Jacques Derrida]] 2005 p 85</ref>

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