The Reform Islam Needs (Great Essay by a Good and Great Man)

City Journal ^ | Fall 2002 | James Q. Wilson

[demosthenes the elder]

agreed.
the longer you give an enemy to prepare, the more difficult it becomes to excise him.
honestly, at this point, I am leaning towards the view that nuclear excavation of mecca, medina, baghdad, and qum would leave the world no poorer.

[Publius6961]

I need to ask this question periodically.
What character flaw makes it necessary for posters to inject editorial comment in a thread's title?

It is unnecessary, distracting and makes duplicate posts almost unavoidable.

Is it too much to ask to limit editorializing to the body of the thread?

[dodger]

Cromwell led the first successful popular reveolution in history and, though a Puritan, was not theocrat. You would do well to read his biography, The Lord Protector, by Antonia Fraser.

[D-fendr]

bookmark

[river rat]

"Do you honestly think they would be around in force if the Shah was still in Iran?

I must admit to ignorance on this point..
I've worked very closely with dozens of Persians here in California -- and even my Persian friends disagree on this... Some believe Iran would still be a open modern high tech member of the "west" - if the Shah was in place. But others maintain he was so corrupt that he brough his downfall upon himself..

Interestingly enough -- the Christian and Muslim Persians I have known have mixed feeling on the Shaw... It is NOT a Christian/Muslim split.... It is just a split!

Where are you on this question?

The power of ONE MAN to shape and direct a nation's destiny is limited. The people and the soul of the nation must WANT and SECURE a leader to move them forward to freedom and self realization, and away from the entrapment of corruption or voodoo bullshit..
Semper Fi