{"id":10943,"date":"2011-02-10T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T16:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/10\/what-do-we-have-to-teach-the-muslim-world-reflections-occasioned-by-the-death-of-maria-schneider\/"},"modified":"2011-02-10T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T16:03:10","slug":"what-do-we-have-to-teach-the-muslim-world-reflections-occasioned-by-the-death-of-maria-schneider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/10\/what-do-we-have-to-teach-the-muslim-world-reflections-occasioned-by-the-death-of-maria-schneider\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do We Have to Teach the Muslim World? Reflections Occasioned by the Death of Maria Schneider"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Alg_maria_schneider\"<\/a> I was one of those who saw "Last Tango in Paris" when it was first released, in 1972.  I haven't seen it since and I don't remember anything specific about it except one scene, the scene you remember too, the 'butter scene,' in which the Marlon Brando character sodomizes the Maria Schneider character.  Maria Schneider died last week<\/a> at 58 and indications are that her exploitation by Brando and Bertolucci scarred her for life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Islamic culture is in many ways benighted and backward, fanatical and anti-Enlightenment, but our trash culture is not much better. Suppose you are a Muslim and you look to the West.  What do you see? Decadence.  And an opportunity to bury the West. <\/span><\/p>\n

If Muslims think that our decadent culture is what Western values are all about, and something we are trying to impose on them, then we are in trouble.  They do and we are. <\/span><\/p>\n

Militant Islam's deadly hatred of us should not be discounted as the ravings of lunatics or psychologized away as a reflex of envy at our fabulous success. For there is a kernel of insight in it that we do <\/span>well to heed. Sayyid Qutb <\/a>, theoretician of the Muslim Brotherhood, who visited the USA at the end of the '40s, writes in Milestones <\/em>(1965):<\/span><\/p>\n

     Humanity today is living in a large brothel! One has only to glance<\/span>
     at its press, films, fashion shows, beauty contests, ballrooms,<\/span>
     wine bars and broadcasting stations! Or observe its mad lust for<\/span>
     naked flesh, provocative pictures, and sick, suggestive statements<\/span>
     in literature, the arts, and mass media! And add to all this the<\/span>
     system of usury which fuels man's voracity for money and engenders<\/span>
     vile methods for its accumulation and investment, in addition to<\/span>
     fraud, trickery, and blackmail dressed up in the garb of law.<\/span><\/p>\n

A wild exaggeration in 1965, the above statement is much less of an exaggeration today. But setting aside the hyperbole, we are in several  ways a sick and decadent society getting worse day by day. On this score, if on no other, we can learn something from our Islamist critics. The fact that a man wants to chop your head off does not mean that he has nothing to teach you.  We often learn more from our enemies than from our friends.  Our friends often will spare us hard truths.<\/span><\/p>\n

Companion post: What Ever Happened to Linda Lovelace?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was one of those who saw "Last Tango in Paris" when it was first released, in 1972.  I haven't seen it since and I don't remember anything specific about it except one scene, the scene you remember too, the 'butter scene,' in which the Marlon Brando character sodomizes the Maria Schneider character.  Maria Schneider died … Continue reading “What Do We Have to Teach the Muslim World? Reflections Occasioned by the Death of Maria Schneider”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309,119,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-islamism","category-sex-love-lust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}