"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."

                --Archilochus

Glenn Reynolds:
"Heh."

Barack Obama:
"Impossible to transcend."

Albert A. Gore, Jr.:
"An incontinent brute."

Rev. Jeremiah Wright:
"God damn the Gentleman Farmer."

Friends of GF's Sons:
"Is that really your dad?"

Kickball Girl:
"Keeping 'em alive until 7:45."

Hired Hand:
"I think . . . we forgot the pheasant."




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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Islam & Martin Luther

Begin with The Whig Interpretation of History, move on to a consideration of the relationship between the Renaissance and the Reformation, and arrive with few delays at the conclusion that Islam in the 21st Century could use a Martin Luther.

Useful thinking today from Samizdata, read the whole thing, [HERE].

Comments on "Islam & Martin Luther"

 

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (5:29 PM) : 

What Islam in the 21th century could use is oil at $20 a barrel. Friedman in The World Is Flat talks about how Bahrain was the first Arab Gulf nation to find oil, the first to run out of it, and the first to enact sweeping reform as well. A noble thought.

 

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