An excellent letter in yesterday’s Times responded to the recent article by William Dalrymple called ‘A lesson in humility for the smug West.’
The letter’s Muslim author hits the nail on the head repeatedly. Perhaps Mr Dalrymple will one day take note:
‘Of course Islam and the East had its golden age and the West learnt from it in all areas of science, politics, economics and culture. But that was 1,000 years ago, when the “thinking” age of Islam came to an end. The Abbasi [clan] invented the sharia and much of the sunnah [the way of the prophet], and the door of “concensus” was closed, much to the merriment of the Muslim clergy.
‘What worked as an orthodox body of political and social laws under the garb of divine sanction does not work now.
‘Dalrymple’s proxy chest-thumping on behalf of us Muslims is not only misplaced but also dangerous, as it merely adds to the anarcho-fascist era of Islam. The Muslim mindset has been imprisoned in the ruins of a dead golden age.’
Read it all here.