Saturday, November 15, 2003
"LOVE IS A SICKNESS"
The whole sentence runs thus: "Love is a sickness that destroys the heart and leads to evil and immorality." From Islam Questions and Answers. I just can't stay away from this stuff ... I admit I have a morbid fascination for reading this kind of detailed sharia material. If I ever waiver in my commitment to anti-Islamism, a few minutes with the sheik always gets me right back in line...
On a personal note, I don't like the idea of being defined by my enemies, i.e. being an opponent as opposed to being opposed, so to speak. But the more time that goes by, and the more I read about Islam and its place in the world, the more convinced I am that there's no way to avoid the conclusion that there is a war of civilizations and that only one can survive. The irony -- one that our mainstream public culture in the West has not yet come to terms with -- is that the clash is between one civilization that is totalitarian and intolerant (Islam), and one that is open and tolerant (modernity), yet the only course of survival for modernity must be based on a firm rejection and condemnation of Islam: About that we must be intolerant. Until we can find a way to openly state that Islam is a religion of hatred, intolerance and violence, we cannot win.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 9:25 PM
