THE ALLAH THAT FAILED
[This Monday’s Archive was originally published on January 6, 2004. Facts are slippery things, especially when they are inconvenient. Ibn Warraq continues to speak out and publish the inconvenient truths of Islam under his pen name (which means “son of a papermaker”). It is a name that dissident authors have used throughout the history of Islam, who hide in fear for their lives. In 2007 Douglas Murray described Ibn Warraq as one who “refuses to accept the idea that all cultures are equal. Were Ibn Warraq to live in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, he would not be able to write. Or if he did, he would not be allowed to live.” The culture of Allah is a culture of death.]
Let’s say there’s this fellow named Moe. He makes a living as a highway bandit robbing travelers. Any victim who gives him any trouble he kills. Moe has a special hatred for Jews. “Kill Jews wherever you find them,” he tells the members of his gang.
At age fifty, Moe tells his best friend that he’s fallen in love with his daughter and wants to marry her. She is six years old. They are “married” and Moe starts having sex with the little girl when she is nine years old.
Moe tells his gang that God talks to him. As the Messenger of God, every word of Moe’s is the Word of God. Moe has his gang members kill anyone who refuses to believe this.
Here’s the question: Is Moe a criminally insane pervert and moral monster, or is he worshipped by hundreds of millions of devout followers who deeply believe that he is the most moral human being who ever lived?
The answer is: he is both.
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DC is abuzz with a ton of Trump-hating journalists and politicians all of a sudden learning that national security is a thing about which to be concerned.
The American president has lost patience with the Russian leader – so have his own people.
One of the ways we can access some of the hidden strength within us is to look for the people, events, and opportunities about which we can feel grateful.
Chinese, written and spoken, is my candidate for the weirdest major language on earth. At the Monterey Institute, where US diplomats are taught foreign languages, it takes on average 600 hours of instruction to be fluent in a European language such as French or German, 1200 for Arabic - and 2400 in Chinese. (This means, of course, that for China and the world to communicate, Chinese must speak English, as the world will never speak Chinese).
