“The advent of Christianity had a profound effect on the minds of men; especially its belief in a brotherhood of man. The vulgar rabble was elevated to the level of the noble. And of a sudden, everyone felt compelled to speak his mind, i.e., share his opinion, after all, it was right!”

In the end, everything is just opinion. Though, it must be said some opinions are endowed with more merit than others.

The media is infested with an absurdity: the notion of the West. The term has become more prevalent as the epic battle of Good and Evil regains force, now guised under the name of the ‘War on Terror’. We hear of a clash of civilizations, of the West and Islam, but these terms are equivocal.

First, Islam is