I got to watch a lot of Egyptian TV, owing to a miscalculation in my attempt at cultural understanding. I’d arrived in Egypt in early December, in the middle of Ramadan. Not that Ramadan itself is hard to understand. It’s a kind of Lent or extended Yom Kippur, with fasting from sunrise to sunset. Nothing […]
Islam Quotes
I would like to say to the young men formed in our Muslim civilisation that it is highly improbable that they can value liberty – by which I mean, relating to another person as an act of free will, whether it be in bed, in erotic play, or in political debates in party cells or […]
In Islam, the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.
Arriving in Egypt during Ramadan is like arriving in an American small town on a holiday weekend about the time that the bowl games come on.
If we let the international police action against terrorism degenerate into a civilizational war of the West versus Islam, we are heading toward catastrophe. The last thing we need is a counter-jihad to respond to the jihad invoked against us by the pals of Bin Laden. Bin Laden has set a trap for the United […]
Here one comes to the arch-difficulty about Islam and all the semi-civilized peoples, be they professing Christians or professing Mohammedans. Islam, however, is almost entirely semi-civilized; which means that its leading notion of political action is to murder and mutilate the men of the opposing party and to violate their women. One cannot get round […]
Farming in much of the Middle East requires irrigation, a horribly communal activity, like being trapped in an endless Amish barn raising. Then the people of the region went and invented writing. Writing is the enabler of bureaucracy. Bureaucracy leads to the Department of Motor Vehicles model of government, with patronage jobs, wire pulling, and […]
Like the Communist Party in its Leninist construction, Islam aims to control the state without being subject to the state.
Secularism in the Christian world was an attempt to resolve the long and destructive struggle of church and state. Separation, adopted in the American and French Revolutions and elsewhere after that, was designed to prevent two things: the use of religion by the state to reinforce and extend its authority; and the use of the […]
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.
