“If the satisfaction of an old man drinking a glass of wine counts for nothing, then production and wealth are only hollow myths ... The saving of time and the conquest of leisure have no meaning if we are not moved by the laughter of a child at play. If we do not love life on our own account and through others, it is futile to seek to justify it in any way.” - Simone de Beauvoir
Sunday, March 21, 2004
Convivencia versus the Cult of Death
Via Hak Mao, here is the first post-Madrid article we’ve seen that even mentions Ceuta and Melilla, in the course of explaining what we’d wrongly hoped was bloody obvious: that Al Qaeda are much less concerned about election results, or other such merely secular and transient matters, than about the “recovery” of al-Andalus (Iberia) for (horrible irony) a fanatical cult that nobody in medieval al-Andalus would have recognised as Islamic. Read the whole thing, especially if you’ve never heard of Ceuta and Melilla, and/or want to know more about al-Andalus, the land that gave the world the still not fully realised vision of convivencia.
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