Less is more.(Lent)(Brief Article)

Publication: Spectator

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COPYRIGHT 2002 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)

Nobody was allowed to miss the arrival of the Islamic season of Ramadan last autumn. When the Muslim month of fasting and self-denial approached, goody two-shoes in the West told us we should lay down the arms we had raised to defend ourselves from Islamic fundamentalist terrorists, lest we offend the religious sensibilities of the wider world of Islam. Rightly, their cry was disregarded. The idea that a holy war should be put on hold for a lunar month would never have occurred to anyone claiming to be fighting such a war. Islam was first spread by the sword, and it would not be the force that it now is if those fighting to impose it had laid down their weapons for four weeks at the first...

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