VDH neglects to note that the heads of tyrants were also placed on pikes upon their overthrow, for the information of the public in the absence of network TV. ;^)
You might enjoy this. ;^)
It neglect to mention that the Spanish Inquisition was the mop up job that finished driving the Moslems out of Spain. The Jews in Spain ended up on the recieving end of that mess because they sided with the Moslems in that particular conflict.
How come you always come up with these articles?;)
The "Enlightenment" and its consequential aftermath was and is a distinctly western phenomenon. Islam, in its continuing decay, never sought such enlightenment. For muslims, the world seems to have been fully defined by the Koran. Perhaps, that is why there are no great Arab authors, no great Arab universities and no great Arab teaching hospitals. We, in the West, are now faced with a resurgence of primitivism, an active campaign to return us all to an intellectual dark ages. How seriously we take that challenge and what we elect do about it will determine our future.
Been posted. As Tolik say, Victor David Hansen Nails IT.