Via Israpundit comes this excellent article at Faithfreedom.org, The secret of Mohammed's Success.
It's really full of good stuff. It starts with an excellent discussion of several logical fallacies that Muslims commit while defending their faith. It then discusses pathological narcissists and explains the reason why the Big Lie can be, paradoxically, very persuasive.
It then talks about the control methods used by Mohammed, and perpetuated since then, to ensure obedience. The discussion is extremely illuminating, and explains a lot about why things are happening the way they are in Iraq.
I will consider the implications of this article in more depth in later topics. However, for starters, consider this: how much different are loopy liberal leftists in the media, in academia, and in street protests from garden variety narcissists?
Posted by ptah at June 13, 2004 07:08 PM