‘Benedict the Brave’

Islam, Religion

“Those capable of following a rational argument understood the significance and purpose of Pope Benedict XVI’s words at the University of Regensburg. He did not misspeak; he was not quoted out of context; and his controversial historical reference vis-Ã -vis the irrationality of Islam was not randomly selected or incidental to his central thesis (faith and reason). Although very much outside the consensus, the pope was as purposeful as he was plain spoken. That he was driven to retract the analytical truth at which he had arrived is an indictment of those who menaced him into a mea culpa…”

The complete column, “Benedict the Brave,” is here.

A Day in the Life…

Iraq

According to the UN, nearly 6,600 civilians were killed in Iraq in two months. What a shame it’s too late to beg Saddam Hussein to take us back and restore law and order to Iraq. We’d promise solemnly never to mess with him again, just so long as he kept his mitts off nukes. Secretly, that’s what anyone with a heart and a head would wish for. This Iraqi boy does. Read about what a day in his life looks like. But then we (who opposed the war, from the get-go, and for all the right reasons) told you so, didn’t we?

Islam's Performative Contradiction

Islam

Benedict XVI, who happens to be a very learned man—far more than his predecessor, the dhimmi pontiff—has proposed an apparently preposterous proposition: Islam might be the source of the violence across the Islamic world (even in places where American soldiers have never set foot). And what is the response on the Muslim Street?

Witness it here, in pictures.

To protest the implication that Islam is violent, the faithful get violent!

Self-contradiction is a condition the Greek philosophers deemed “less than human, less than coherent, less than sane.” The riots on the Muslim Street are a performative contradiction—a most extreme manifestation of self-contradiction, and hence of insanity and savagery.

Islam’s Performative Contradiction

Islam

Benedict XVI, who happens to be a very learned man—far more than his predecessor, the dhimmi pontiff—has proposed an apparently preposterous proposition: Islam might be the source of the violence across the Islamic world (even in places where American soldiers have never set foot). And what is the response on the Muslim Street?

Witness it here, in pictures.

To protest the implication that Islam is violent, the faithful get violent!

Self-contradiction is a condition the Greek philosophers deemed “less than human, less than coherent, less than sane.” The riots on the Muslim Street are a performative contradiction—a most extreme manifestation of self-contradiction, and hence of insanity and savagery.