Obit for Egyptian Writer

Naguib Mahfouz was a muslim intellectual. And thus in recent years he faced a crazed islamic retard. Imagine the retard attacking the 83-year-old Mahfouz, stabbing him in the neck, attempting to execute him for "blasphemous" writing. Mahfouz survived the stabbing, but the injury blocked writing for five years. Where outside the muslim world does religion today inspire assassinations as penalty for expressed thought?

There was a time when Islam's people were more mature than those outside Islam. This article says that Mahfouz adored the fact that during the time of Islamic civilization, its leaders traded European prisoners for Greek literature. In those days muslims didn't kill people for the words that they wrote or spoke, though christians did. Today the worse that christian nuts do is boycott and demand the firing of people who "offend" them. That's a lot closer to civilization than executing them.