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.
Islam Quotes
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.
If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
In the Western world, the basic unit of human organization is the nation, in American but not European usage virtually synonymous with country. This is then subdivided in various ways, one of which is by religion. Muslims, however, tend to see not a nation subdivided into religious groups, but a religion subdivided into nations.
In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people… It was not until the Western nations broke away from their religious law that they became more tolerant, and it was only when the Muslims fell away from their religious law that they declined in tolerance and other evidences […]
