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January 14, 2015

French polymath Ernest Renan’s 1883 Sorbonne lecture on Islam:

Those liberals who defend Islam do not know Islam.

Islam is the seamless union of the spiritual and the temporal, it is the reign of dogma, it is the heaviest chain mankind has ever borne. In the early Middle Ages, Islam tolerated philosophy, because it could not stop it. It could not stop it because it was as yet disorganized, and poorly armed for terror….But as soon as Islam had a mass of ardent believers at its disposal, it destroyed everything in its path. Religious terror and hypocrisy were the order of the day. Islam has been liberal when weak, and violent when strong. Let us not give it credit for what it was merely unable to suppress.
Caldwell’s reflections, cont’d | Power Line

Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 14, 2015 12:58 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Hmmmmm....
"Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an"
Islam and the Founders
Denise A. Spellberg-2013
Via. Alfred Knopf, ISBN 978-0-307-26822-8

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