Any New Financial Order For The World

Ever Since The Destruction Of Baghdad By The Mongols In 1258, The Muslim World Has Been In Slow Decline Relative To The West. With Napoleon's Invasion Of Egypt And The Creeping British Annexation Of Muslim India, That Decline Took On A Malign Aspect.

Any New Financial Order For The World Must Tackle The Three Chief Challenges Of Our Age.

To Give Money To A Woman - And Here I Must Speak As A Man - Is To Deny Her Special Quality, Her Irreplaceability, And Reduce Her Unique Amiability To A Commodity. Money Takes Away Her Name, While Transforming Her Lover Into A Nameless Customer Of A Market Of Appetites.

Suicidal Violence Is Not The Exclusive Property Of The Muslim World. Suicide Bombings Were A Tactic Of Nationalist Struggles In 19th-century Europe And Russia, The Far East During The Second World War And The Vietnam War, And In Modern Sri Lanka.

We Read Too Much Shakespeare At School, And View Our Parliamentary Politics As Dynastic Drama, In Which An Impatient Crown Prince Frets At His Long Subordination And Begins To Scheme For The Throne He Knows He Merits, Was Promised And Has Earned.