— Robert Locke, writing for FrontPage Magazine, makes a strong case for Islam as a defective religion that gives rise to a defective civilization. The main points appear to have been cribbed off this blog, which makes them credible, of course. Here’s a sample of Locke’s argument:
There are also disturbing aspects about Islam purely as a religion, independent of any social consequences. For example, its conception of paradise with the 70 virgins, et cetera, is, to be quite blunt, repulsively crude and I do not think this is just a Western bias. Everything I have gathered in conversation with representatives of other traditions suggests to me that a serious Buddhist, Hindu or Chinaman finds this equally unattractive. The ultimate end of man should not be a teenage fantasy. It is, of course, a wonderful myth for motivating young men to become killers.
The Sharia problem, the non-separation of church and state problem, and the crude nature of the Islamic religious imagination all weigh heavily against Islamic progress. Certainly, there is a serious force pushing Muslims in the direction of madness for them to believe that Arabs were not involved in 9/11.