Quotes May 13

Where two pieties - feminism and multiculturalism - come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence. - Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture What's Left of It, p.286

Philip II of Spain averred, 'I would rather sacrifice the lives os a hundred thousand people than cease my persecution heretics'. - Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture What's Left of It, p.280

Devout Muslims can see (as Luther, Calvin and others could not) the long term consequences of Reformation and its consequent secularism: a marginalissation of the Word of God, except as an increasingly distant curl echo - as the  'melancholy, long , withdrawing roar' of the once oil 'Sea of faith' in Matthew Arnold's precisely diagnostic words. - Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture What's Left of It, p.281