Islamic terrorism and Charlie Hebdo – Is more blasphemy the best response?
Michael Cook (MercatorNet) has written a useful reflection on the latest terrorist attack in France, asking whether the approach advocated by many commentators is the best way.
He quotes novelist Michel Houellebecq, who was featured on this week’s cover of Charlie Hebdo, saying,
Look, the Enlightenment is dead … May it rest in peace. … In itself, it can produce nothing, just emptiness and unhappiness. So yes, I am hostile to Enlightenment philosophy, I need to make that perfectly clear.
