“Don’t Mince Words”
Hitchens’ commentary on the Fundamentalist Muslims who
practice a form of Islam that formed by, “…explicit rejection of any definition
of Islam as a religion of peace.” His argument is that we avoid confronting the
“fascistic subculture” of people who happen to call themselves Muslims out of
fear of boing called bigots. He writes, “The least we can do, confronted by
such radical evil, is to look it in the eye (something it strives to avoid) and
call it by its right name.” Well said.
The essay was written as a response to the 2007 Glasgow
Airport car bombing. Note the newspaper report is very cautious not to mention
that the bombers were from the middle east.
New learning: The 2007 car bombing outside of a night club in
Piccadilly was described as, “…this explosion might have been designed to lure
people into the street, the better to be burned and shredded by the succeeding
explosion from the second car-borne cargo of gasoline and nails.” Same approach
as the 2013 Boston Marathon bombers.
New word: theodicy = vindication of the divine goodness in
view of the existence of evil
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