Sunday, June 28, 2009
"... I notice, post Iran, the apologists of Islam are clawing their way back to the top of the dung heap to declaim with solemn oaths that the persecuting Ayatollahs of Persia are not a true representation of the Muslim way of governance... sort of like a lowly scribe in the court of Ferdinand II arguing that in no way did the Defenestration of Prague demonstrate, regardless of delightfully symbolic divine intervention in the form of a pile of manure, that mixing the unreasonable intemperance of religious doctrine with the brutalities of worldly power might prove a toxic blend... well, not really like that per se, but the gist is there... whatever, the Wars of Religion provide a convenient context for illustrating how hopelessly naive it is to think that the faith based autocracies of the East can evolve into open societies more accommodating of the West without the intercession of violent upheaval..."
