March 17, 2004
Another great piece on the meaning of Spain.
Rick Brookhiser writes:
It was appropriate that the jihadists struck during a rush hour—appropriate by way of contrast. Spaniards were going to work. The Islamist’s world is lubricated by oil revenue and peonage. In Spain, men and women commute together. The Islamist must not see the hair of a strange woman, lest he be distracted from his own wives or catamites. The terrorists also struck on the eve of an election—another point of contrast, since the Islamist’s ideal society would be governed by the immutable Voice of God, as channeled by Imam X and Mullah Y and Killer Z.
Via The Corner
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