I.e., Intolerance & Hate

{Image from and h/t to: Jawa Report} Now, excuse me, but, if I'm not utterly mistaken, mightn't this just possibly, though not regrettably, be construed as an example of intolerance and hate? No, I didn't think so, either.

Enough simpering irony. Such an exemplar of Islam shows that the template of the Scimitar is quite simply that which René Girard deems "the primitive Sacred." It does not have its origins in the God revealed in the Sacred Scriptures of the Bible, but in the founding violence of the sandy wastes of Arabia; a perversion of the Christian faith filtered through the murky thinking of a heretic (cf. Hilaire Belloc's invaluable The Great Heresies). If dialog is possible with such proponents, it will be due to the unsearchable steadfast love (hesed, agape) of the covenant-making, covenant-keeping Spirit of God, who never gives up trying to reconcile his children to himself, and to one another.

Dr. Tawfik Hamid would be a good exemplar of the Holy Spirit at work in Islam [h/t: The Iconoclast].