Says Spengler: Today's Europeans stem from the melting-pot of the barbarian invasions that replaced the vanishing population of the Roman Empire. The genius of the Catholic Church was to absorb them. If Benedict XVI can convert this new wave of invaders from North Africa and the Middle East, history will place him on a par with his great namesake, the founder of the monastic order the bears his name.
[I am regurging this because no one has read it carefully enough.-JJ]
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Cool link in your article.
You in the market for a fatwa, Pepe? Why not a thinwa? (This is an old mft-jj exchange).
Better link.
I suppose the good thing about the traditional Islamic veil works both ways: what if the chick is really ugly? It's sort of a glorified paper bag.
Don't you need to take it off at some point?
Sorry I haven't commented on this earlier. This is an extraordinary piece by Spengler. Were it by anyone else I would dismiss it as Buchananian bullshit.
This and Allam's words in it need a lot of mulling over.
If even a fraction of this would hold, this would be great news, indeed. Remember the role the (Polish) Pope played in the implosion of Communism? Can this (German) Pope repeat the feat, even partially -- with a different cast of characters?
I didn't think the women were allowed to take the veil off unless one of us dudes said they could. You know, because we would turn into sex-craved lunatics and society would implode on itself. That's why things work so orderly in Somalia.
...more seriously, though, to bring a little Hitchens to bear on this piece by Spengler: Hitchens is correct to point out the contradictions in religion (I'm referring to his Letters to a Young Contrarian). For example, the Bible in one passage gives us a judicially strict Eye for an Eye clause, yet in another breaks into a variety of relativity by saying he who has no sin may cast the first stone. This can be interpreted as a weakness, but if taken in the non-metaphysical but rather humanist sense, we get a broader spectrum that's intrinsic in being a human.
Just throwing that out there for the sake of conversation and potential argument.
There are some rather profound differences between the Old and the New Testament. When in doubt, I'd go with the New.
I wonder if Allam's going to start a domino or if Western Culture is too dead and cowardly.
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