re: #298 Killgore Trout

Try this one….
Hirsi Ali, atheism and Islam

By Spengler

It’s nonsense.

Hirsi Ali has my unqualified admiration. The courage which guided her journey from Somalia to the Netherlands still prompts her to warn of the dangers before the West at great risk to her own life. I have a similar admiration for Orhan Pamuk, now in virtual exile from his native Turkey, and Rushdie, who remains in danger of a Muslim death warrant, and other Muslim apostates who refuse to be intimidated. Courage, Winston Churchill said, is the first of the virtues, for without it, one does not have the opportunity to exercise the others. Yet it is not the only virtue, and I hope that Hirsi Ali’s journey takes her further, beyond atheism.

It seems a very intelligent discussion to me. I don’t agree with every point he makes, but much of it is sensible. What do you object to?