barbarians

I am not blogging for a very long time. Life is in Ost-Asia a bit meaningless because we have seen so much failure that is not really failure. I am speaking about my students, who are bright and curious and wanting to know more, but they are told to keep quiet and be good Moslems. I do not mind that they are Moslems, but I mind that they are threatened if they want to know about anything that is not Moslem. I am minding an old saying of the Great Caliph, "If we threaten the barbarian who cannot read the Book, we are worse than the barbarian."