(expanded from a long comment on cutelildrow's journal over here"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are ( Read more... )

Sultan Knish's "Three Fundamental Mistakes in Dealing With Islam.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2012/01/three-fundamental-mistakes-in-dealing.html

The money quote:

While we were trying to force the Muslim world into our maze with two openings, one labeled 'extreme' and one labeled 'moderate', they were really moving us into their meta-maze with two ( Read more... )