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I like what this guy has to say....

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James Lileks: Even discussing history is off-limits




09:20 AM CDT on Thursday, September 21, 2006


Clip and save, for this may come in handy:

If you mock Islam with a drawing or a novel, you get riots and dead people. News of mishandled holy books yields riots and dead people. Insufficiently reverent short films by a Dutchman yields a dead person

There is probably a suicide bomber on his/her way to his house as we type.

I thought this was an interesting statement....

Quote:At the risk of making a generalization: The secular right seems more tolerant of Christianity and skeptical toward large swaths of Islam. The secular left often seems contemptuous toward American religion and oddly protective of Islam. Not because they believe in it; heavens, no. Some progressives are simply besotted by any civilization not their own.

blah Wrote:There is probably a suicide bomber on his/her way to his house as we type.

I thought this was an interesting statement....

Quote:At the risk of making a generalization: The secular right seems more tolerant of Christianity and skeptical toward large swaths of Islam. The secular left often seems contemptuous toward American religion and oddly protective of Islam. Not because they believe in it; heavens, no. Some progressives are simply besotted by any civilization not their own.

I thought that was the most interesting of a lot of interesting statments.