“As anyone who has seen a number of films in the horror-slasher genre could attest, there is nothing surprising about this morality at all. The message of slasher films is very simple: you screw, you die . . . the plot of every horror story is essentially the same. If you violate sexual morals, you …
About As Stark as It Gets
Islamic law has its own ways of dealing with adultery. Jesus had another. “And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law …
It Took a Long Time for Kinkos to Get the Image Onto that Marshmallow
We have recently been discovering that a lot of people don’t even know that Credenda comes out in an audio version. In part you might not know because you don’t get Canon’s e-newsletter, and if that is the case then you also missed out on a big giveaway. The e-postcard they sent to subscribers the …
Not Like Changing Denominations
“The most dangerous thing a Muslim can do is leave Islam—no matter what the reason” (Mark Gabriel, Islam and Terrorism, p. 59).
And They Think That We Have a Thing About Sex
“Ripley then takes off her clothes, and as soon as she does so the Alien reappears. Here we have the truncated causality of the horror genre. As in The Bacchae, The Blob, Blood Feast, Slumber Party Massacre, and countless other examples, as soon as an attractive young woman removes any article of clothing a monster …
Disposable Human Rights
“Islam says that human rights are unnecessary because they are also a man-made idea that is not found in the Quran” (Mark Gabriel, Islam and Terrorism, p. 55).
Souls of Rejected Children
“The womb was scraped clean, but the fetus instead of disappearing simply changed its place of residence. Once it was prevented from growing in her womb, it started growing in her mind, a troubled conscience that could not be repressed . . . The monsters that haunt . . . are the souls of the …
Why There is War in the House of War
“In Islamic law there are only two types of nations—a nation that is of the house of Islam or a nation that is of the house of war” (Mark Gabriel, Islam and Terrorism, p. 47).
The Moral Conscience Has a Chainsaw
“What they got—and by extension what the nation that supported them got—was something that completely surpassed their intentions, but a something which nonetheless substantiated the moral law in a way they could not have foreseen and which they probably would still not admit. To recapitulate the past forty years of film history, which was in …
Slender Assurance
“Western media have poked fun at the Muslim understanding of Paradise (heaven)—virgins for men to enjoy and so forth—but it is much more significant to recognize that dying in jihad is the only way a Muslim can be assured of entering Paradise at all” (Mark Gabriel, Islam and Terrorism, p. 29).