Burke, the Hihab, & the Kafir

"Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in."

--Edmund Burke [ht: Whapping]

I thought of the above yesterday as a hijab-adorned young beauty swerved, tail-gated, and berated me for my observing the speed limit in a 25-mile per hour zone (okay - I was doing 30).

But, you know, for a kafir, I thought I practiced radical non-retaliation rather well.