Plus Ca Change...
But we were not always in the air, and our idle hours were spent taming the Moors. They would come out of their forbidden regions (those regions we crossed in our flights and where they would shoot at us the whole length of our crossing), would venture to the stockade in the hope of buying loaves of sugar, cotton, tea, and then would sink back again into their mystery. Whenever they turned up we would try to tame a few of them in order to establish little nuclei of friendship in the desert; thus if we were forced down among them there would be at any rate a few who might be persuaded to sell us into slavery rather than massacre us.
Now and then an influential chief came up, and him, with the approval of the Line, we would load into the plane and carry off to see something of the world. The aim was to soften their pride, for, repositories of the truth, defenders of Allah, the only God, it was more in contempt than in hatred that he and his kind murdered their prisoners.
When they met us in the region of Juby or Cisneros, they never troubled to shout abuse at us. They would merely turn away and spit; and this not by way of personal insult but out of sincere disgust at having crossed the path of a Christian. Their pride was born of the illusion of their power. Allah renders a believer invincible.

From "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint Exupery

posted by Justin on 11.22.04 at 11:51 PM





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Reminds me of General Charles "Chinese" Gordon vs. the Mahdi at Kartoum. They've been that way since Muhammad founded Islam. We are drunken, sodomite, idol-worshipping pig-eaters.

Some of Dean Esmay's recent posts paint a different picture of some Muslims, though.



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