BTW, they’re best known for their squash platters.

The Ayatollahs could make even better arguments that among the subjects too Western to be suitable for Islamic students are physics, modern medicine, biology, chemistry, engineering and, for that matter, mathematics and computer science. These are all areas where the last significant Muslim contributions were a millenium ago, and which are, in their modern forms, products of the Enlightenment. Muslims who work in those subjects are, de facto, westernized in their thought. “Allah wills it” does not hack it in science, any more than “Deus vult” does. But for some reason the Ayatollahs don’t reject nuclear physics. Curious that, and not at all consistent.

Dangerous too. As the Commies found out, if you let people think rationally about science they go on to think rationally about the dreck ideology their opressors are shoving down their throats. For the purity of Islam the Taliban had the right idea; keep everybody ignorant and the country economically moribund. If they had not got involved it that jihad nonsense Osama bin Laden sold them they’d still be able to prohibit music, kite flying, and shaving in Afghanistan, and any other innocent practices that offended their shriveled, radical Islamic souls.

“I sat down and felt this shot of spiritual morphine”

She doesn’t know how right she is.