The Greeks bitterly resented all insults and humiliations, and their anguish and frustration pushed them into the arms of rebellion. Restrictions of all kinds, unlawful taxation, forced labor, persecutions, violence, imprisonment, death, abductions of girls and boys and their confinement to Turkish harems, and various deeds of wantonness and lust, along with numerous less offensive excesses – all these were a constant challenge to the instinct of survival and they defied every sense of human decency.
The brutality of an autocratic regime, which was characterized by economic spoliation, intellectual decay and cultural retrogression, was sure to provoke opposition. The Revolution of 1821 is no more than the last great phase of the resistance of the Greeks to Ottoman domination it was a relentless, undeclared war, which had begun already in the first years of servitude. one thing I’ll say in this comparison is that, for goodness sake, Jesus is an enormously attractive charismatic figure, which the Prophet of Islam most emphatically is not. The Prophet, though gifted in the arts of persuasion and clearly a considerable military leader, was both doubtfully literate and certainly ill-informed about the contents of the Old Testament and about several matters of which God, if not even the least informed of the Prophet’s contemporaries, must have been cognizant. There is no order or development in its subject matter. Whereas markets can be found for books on reading the Bible as literature, to read the Qur'an is a penance rather than a pleasure. Between the New Testament and the Qur'an there is (as it is customary to say when making such comparisons) no comparison. it is, I think, best described in a Marxian way as the uniting and justifying ideology of Arab imperialism. I would never regard Islam with anything but horror and fear because it is fundamentally committed to conquering the world for Islam. In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Īngela Carter (1940 – 1992) was an English novelist and journalist. They will only escape as they succeed in withdrawing themselves from the control of Musulman law. Islamized nations, who have not succeeded in freeing themselves from Musulman tutelage, have been stricken with intellectual paralysis and decadence. Individuals under Arab rule have only been able to contribute to the advance of civilization in so far as they did not conform to the Musulman dogma, but they relapsed into Arab barbarism as soon as they were obliged to make a complete submission to these dogmas. In the history of the nations, Islam, a secretion of the Arab brain, has never been an element of civilization, but on the contrary has acted as an extinguisher upon its flickering light. It condemns all believers to live, to think, and to act as lived, thought and acted the Musulmans of the second century of the Hegira, when the law of Islam and its interpretation were definitely fixed. Islam is a doctrine of death, inasmuch as the spiritual not being separated from the temporal, and every manifestation of activity being subjected to dogmatic law, it formally forbids any change, any evolution, any progress. Consequently, the more Christianity clings to its dogmas, the quicker it will decline.! Īlexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805 – 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution. Science has already impregnated humanity. And that's why one day its structure will collapse. Christianity, of course, has reached the peak of absurdity in this respect. The Christians, on the other hand, declare themselves satisfied if after their death they are allowed to sing hallelujahs!. Observe, by the way, that, as a corollary, the Moslem was promised a paradise peopled with sensual girls, where wine flowed in streams - a real earthly paradise. The exhortation to fight courageously is also self-explanatory. The precepts ordering people to wash, to avoid certain drinks, to fast at appointed dates, to take exercise, to rise with the sun, to climb to the top of the minaret - all these were obligations invented by intelligent people. The instructions of a hygienic nature that most religions gave, contributed to the foundation of organized communities. The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. A slow death has something comforting about it. The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death.
Muhammad ibn Zakariyā Rāzī (865 – 925 AD) was a Persian physician, alchemist, chemist, philosopher, and scholar.