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"Take your Islam and go!"

Dissidents/Ex-Muslims

"Take your Islam and go!"

This is much more powerful than the already powerful "Death to the dictator!" Of course, it also implies death to dictatorship, yet nothing can be more direct and unequivocal than "Take your Islam and go!" It is not our Islam, we don't want it, and we don't want those who want it! GO!

Anatomy of a madness, Part 1

Anatomy of a madness, Part 1

I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.

Christopher Hitchens’s “Axis of Evil” speech, Part 1.

Totalitarianism Featured

Christopher Hitchens’s “Axis of Evil” speech, Part 1.

All the years that were spent in trying to contain, coerce, or civilise this man, had been wasted. They had all been exploited by him to advance his program. It seemed that his appetite for power only grew with the eating.

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 7

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 7

Whether class struggle that must inevitably lead to the dictatorship of the proletariat, or “No one comes to the Father except through me,” or “until all worship is for Allah alone," the idea is the same: we act in accord with our purpose, the only way to real human happiness.

Israel: the worst thing that ever happened to Islam

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Israel: the worst thing that ever happened to Islam

These countries are finally setting up national markets, with the attendant liberalising transformation. Arab states have an enormous task on their hands: restructure society away from Islam and towards freedom, i.e., modernise, and the key is Israel. It is a complete repudiation of Hassan al-Banna.