Victor Davis Hanson on Uncommon Knowledge
By Sam Schneider | January 15th, 2008Hanson Victor Davis Hanson discusses the war, radical Islam and Iran with the Hoover Institute’s Peter Robinson: here.
Hanson Victor Davis Hanson discusses the war, radical Islam and Iran with the Hoover Institute’s Peter Robinson: here.
If you’ve got some time on your hands have a look at this video of Theodore Dalrymple on Britain, the good life and the state of our culture.
It’s official: the Gray Lady has consummated her romance with Tariq Ramadan, political Islam’s emissary to the West and, perhaps more importantly, the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan Al-Banna. After a string of puff pieces, flattering reviews, and generally adulatory notices, the Book Review has opened her pages to Ramadan’s own writings. Titled “Reading the Koran,” this screed might better be understood as “Reading the Koran Without Sweating the Scary/Violent Stuff.”
Try this excerpt on for size:
The Koran is a book for both heart and mind. In nearness to it, a woman or a man who possesses a spark of faith knows the path to follow, knows her or his own inadequacies. No sheik is needed, no wise man, no confidant. Ultimately, the heart knows. This was what the Prophet answered when he was asked about moral feelings. In the light of the Book, he said, “Inquire of your heart.” And should our intelligence stray into the complexities of the different levels of reading, from applied ethics to the rules of practice, we must never forget to clothe ourselves in the intellectual modesty that alone can reveal the secrets of the Text.
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