tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5108463567672522750.post4858529721332944243..comments2024-03-25T13:19:19.072-05:00Comments on Diogenes' Middle Finger: Islam and Counterparts on the Political LeftDiogenes Sarcastica™ http://www.blogger.com/profile/06701909436152548138noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5108463567672522750.post-90371964643504525532012-09-25T09:42:59.398-05:002012-09-25T09:42:59.398-05:00I finished Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel the other...I finished Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel the other day and am about half way through her second book Nomad. I am sure there are as many fatwas out their demanding her death as Salman Rushdie. Her straight-forward condemnation of Islam is so rational, so grounded in real life experience, and so beautifully framed in her writing that anyone except a Liberal would find her arguments irrefutable. There is nothing beautiful in Islam, no great wisdom, no humanity. It is a poorly done plagiarizing of the Hebrew Bible mixed in with the rantings of a pedophile mixed with the primitive traditions of desert nomads. It appeals to primitive people devoid of any sense of modernity because it reinforces misogynistic ideas and justifies the most violent and savage impulses. We are always shown the beauty of the Alhambra and other elements of the Saracen culture to justify the glories of Islam. They were relatively short lived to be replaced by the pure Arab culture that dominates most of Islam now. There is nothing poetic or beautiful in its modern incarnation.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15584837167786722106noreply@blogger.com