Live Offgrid André Servier

André Servier was an historian who lived in French Algeria at the beginning of the 20th century.
Islam was not a torch, as has been claimed, but an extinguisher. Conceived in a barbarous brain for the use of a barbarous people, it was - and it remains - incapable of adapting itself to civilization. Wherever it has dominated, it has broken the impulse towards progress and checked the evolution of society.[8]
Islam is Christianity adapted to Arab mentality, or, more exactly, it is all that the unimaginative brain of a Bedouin, obstinately faithful to ancestral practices, has been able to assimilate of the Christian doctrines. Lacking the gift of imagination, the Bedouin copies, and in copying he distorts the original. Thus Musulman law is only the Roman Code revised and corrected by Arabs; in the same way Musulman science is nothing but Greek science interpreted by the Arab brain; and again, Musulman architecture is merely a distorted imitation of the Byzantine style.[8]
The deadening influence of Islam is well demonstrated by the way in which the Musulman comports himself at different stages of his life. In his early childhood, when the religion has not as yet impregnated his brain, he shows a very lively intelligence and remarkably open mind, accessible to ideas of every kind; but, in proportion as he grows up, and as, through the system of his education, Islam lays hold of him and envelops him, his brain seems to shut up, his judgment to become atrophied, and his intelligence to be stricken by paralysis and irremediable degeneration.[8]
Islam is by no means a negligible element in the destiny of humanity. The mass of three hundred million believers is growing daily, because in most Musulman countries the birth-rate exceeds the death-rate, and also because the religious propaganda is constantly gaining new adherents among tribes still in a state of barbarism.[8]
To sum up: the Arab has borrowed everything from other nations, literature, art, science, and even his religious ideas. He has passed it all through the sieve of his own narrow mind, and being incapable of rising to high philosophic conceptions, he has distorted, mutilated and desiccated everything. This destructive influence explains the decadence of Musulman nations and their powerlessness to break away from barbarism…[8]

May 17, 2013 at 11:50 pm

Mike Haas My brain hurts and I feel dumber after reading that.

May 16, 2013 at 7:05 am

Laila Abdullah That's an extremist if I ever saw one!

May 16, 2013 at 7:46 am

Goshe King The very self proclaimed "mujahidin" carry out bombing in Pakistan against certain sect such as Shia while they are gathered in prayers. Last year they caught one in November who's bomb didn't go off. My uncle is a police chief and he said the man was crying after he was caught. He was crying because he was upset that he said he was stopped from jihad and his way to Janat (heaven)
So you tell me how you fix a problem when a nation is bred to believe that killing a Shia is guaranteed heaven and 72 virgins. About 14 years ago, a so called Muslim who prayed five times a day and made honest earnings via barber shop, told me the same rhetoric about Shia and how great it is to kill them. I didn't believe him for rule of thumb for me has always been to stick to non aggression principle and you learn that from the story of Karbala and the martyrdom of the grandson of the prophet at the hands of so called Muslims, 1400 years ago. You learn that from learning the history that the so called companions of the prophet (pbuh) were the ones who set his daughters house on fire three days after He left the earth. The so called Muslims...

May 15, 2013 at 3:05 pm

Mike Haas Because in the end no one really gives two hoots about the Palestinians. It's just a convenient issue to justify being assholes. Just look at the actions and policies of their neighbors over the last 65 years. The real reason Israel was attacked was to keep Palestinians out of the Arab League nations. Syria drove them out, destroyed their lands and salted the earth. Egypt treats them worse than they do Copts. Saudi won't even allow them in except for hajj or to be slaves. And Jordan nearly did what most Arab nations secretly wish they would have. Anyone who thinks for a second that the rest of the Arab world really cares about Palestine other than to have an excuse needs to wake up. The vast majority of aid to Palestine comes from non Muslim nations. Saudi Arabia has given them less since 2002 than the US gave last year. The "Mujahadeen" are nothing but pawns, playing the role of the west's boogey man rather well.

May 15, 2013 at 6:01 pm

Hassan Loutfi As for the sexes of doctors and patients, that's something that should never have been an issue, ever. The medical sphere has to be exempt from rules of modesty entirely when examining and caring for patients, because much of it, regardless of gender, would otherwise be haraam. No society can afford to gender-segregate medicine without resulting in unequal medical care.

May 14, 2013 at 11:50 am

Mike Haas Duston, the beneficial chemical in Marijuana (THC) is also the same one that causes "intoxication". There are many other cannabinoids in Marijuana, but they are not as pharmacologically useful as THC. In essence what you are asking to do, has been done and would be the same as removing the intoxicating agents found in opiates which render them useless as a analgesic. Which raises the question of why is Marijuana supposedly haram when opium and it's derivatives not? Marijuana is far less harmful and addictive than opiates are.

May 14, 2013 at 3:24 pm