...to the end. Sad to say that today is my birthday. Even sadder to admit that I'm 37. Tempus fugit. I wish I had something really witty to say, but I don't.
Spent the day at the local public library continuing my research for the next book on the worldview of Islamic terrorists. Reading some fascinating material right now. The bombshell of my thesis is that the thinkers who developed the groundwork for Islamic fundamentalism were Western-educated Marxists and socialists who synthesized the revolutionary worldview with Islam (Mawdudi, Qutb, Shariati, et al.). Yet the worldview of Islam lends itself to being synthesized in this way. Osama bin Laden even studied under Qutb's brother at King Azziz University in Jeddah. I would like to float a book proposal around sometime next month to a couple of publishers to see if any of them bite.
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Happy birthday! Sorry it's belated. You're the age of Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps, so maybe the real adventure's just about to begin?
Remember that they have a strong faith in God.
Right ... unlike the peace-loving leaders of the Stalinist regime and the Khmer Rouge.
In reponse to freethinker: you overstate the case. They have full faith in humanity and in their ability to shape the future. Osama bin Laden is the consummate ubermensch. Their religion is inherently humanist. There is no transcendence in Islam. God is wholly other, unknowable, unreachable, which is no different from secularism.
It's also noteworthy that the most suicide bombings in the past 20 years have not been Islamic terrorists, but Tamil terrorists in Sri Lanka, who are devout Marxists and atheists. And as for mass murder in general, no one religion can come close to the record of materialist humanism in the 20th Century (Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Hoxha, etc., etc.).
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