Our use of phrase ‘The Dark ages’ to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe. To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view. From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time […]
Islam Quotes
In the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the (Muslim) mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force. Therefore caliphate and royal authority are united (in Islam), so that the person in charge can devote the available strength to both […]
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 […]
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 […]
We have never heard about any attempt to compel Non-Muslim parties to adopt Islam or about any organized persecution aiming at exterminating Christianity. If the Caliphs had chosen one of these plans, they would have wiped out Christianity as easily as what happened to Islam during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella in Spain; by […]
When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I […]
Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you.
