The intellectual flavor of the week is "What ISIS Really Wants," Graeme Wood, The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
Wood answers: the caliphate recently established. There is a change, friends and enemies, a change in how "Adults" are writing about Islam--No change in how the president of the U.S.A. thinks about Islam, though! After 9/11/01 I read the Koran cover-to-cover, heavily excerpted it here. Read Sayyad Qutb's commentaries. The wonder to me was not that Islam was violent; the wonder was that all Muslims weren't violent for I did not see how any reasonable reading of the Koran could produce non-violent believers. Wood says, contrary to President Obama's dismissal of ISIS as an al Qaeda "jay-vee" team, Ice-heads are intelligent, thoughtful and studious of the Koran, where any reasonable reading would find support for ISIS practices slavery for women and children, crucifixions and beheadings. It's really all there, "The Answer is Islam."
Larry Siedentrop says the roots of Western secular liberalism can be traced to Christianity in his book Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism.
And Protestant Christianity created the modern novel. http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/2015/marapr/novel-as-protestant-art.html?paging=off
Wood answers: the caliphate recently established. There is a change, friends and enemies, a change in how "Adults" are writing about Islam--No change in how the president of the U.S.A. thinks about Islam, though! After 9/11/01 I read the Koran cover-to-cover, heavily excerpted it here. Read Sayyad Qutb's commentaries. The wonder to me was not that Islam was violent; the wonder was that all Muslims weren't violent for I did not see how any reasonable reading of the Koran could produce non-violent believers. Wood says, contrary to President Obama's dismissal of ISIS as an al Qaeda "jay-vee" team, Ice-heads are intelligent, thoughtful and studious of the Koran, where any reasonable reading would find support for ISIS practices slavery for women and children, crucifixions and beheadings. It's really all there, "The Answer is Islam."
Larry Siedentrop says the roots of Western secular liberalism can be traced to Christianity in his book Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism.
And Protestant Christianity created the modern novel. http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/2015/marapr/novel-as-protestant-art.html?paging=off
