Aphorisms by the Donkey #2

Al-Mustafa: not to be confused with Mr. Kemal

When ingratitude is a virtue: “Thanks for the mosque, but you can keep your books!”

The End of History? The History of the End, rather!

Homo Prometheus - and we Neanderthals cry for eagles

Would one tell a diabetic to be grateful for the sweetness of his urine?

The Enlightenment: history is written by the losers

The greatest discovery of modern science was that superstition need not be confined to the metaphysical

Leave no Rome unspurned

The right wing on Wahabism – “With enemies like these, who needs friends?”

Aphorisms by the Donkey

Shari’ah: democracy is the servant of human rights
No Shari’ah: human rights is the servant of democracy

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humour. But puns come pretty damn close

If religion is the opiate of the masses, then atheism is the crystal meth of the disaffected bourgeois romantics

Unbelief is worse than nonbelief. Disbelief is worse than unbelief.

An atheist is a third of the way towards becoming Muslim

Pity: repression by the well-intentioned

In love with a woman one has never met: any less stupid than one’s passion for Him?

Forgiveness bought by a ransom is not forgiveness at all

A wise monk once told me of the unreality of the world. I kicked him in the balls.