Liberty In Islam Is The Liberty To

The Use Of Refined Petroleum As Fuel, Which Began In The 1850s, Freed Hundreds Of Millions Of People From The Toil Of Centuries, Gave Hundreds Of Millions More A Life Of Ease And Plenty, And, By Allowing Great Cities To Feed Themselves From Every Corner Of The World, Multiplied The Population Of The Earth Fivefold.

Europe And North America, We Are Told, Are Less Dependent On Energy-intensive Heavy Industry Than In The 1960s And 1970s. It Seems We Squeeze More Gdp Out Of A Barrel Of Oil Than In Those Benighted Days.

There Are About 15 Million Muslims In The Eu. They Face Ignorance, Insult And Even Persecution. They Cannot Be Wished Away. To Impose Enlightenment Freedoms Is Self-defeating. Anyway, The Muslims Have Their Own Enlightenment.

One Of The Admirable Features Of British Novelists Is That They Have No Scruple About Setting Their Stories In Foreign Settings With Wholly Foreign Personnel.

Life Without Oil, In Fact, Would Be So Different That It Is Frightening To Contemplate. We Are Addicted, And It Is No Comfortable Addiction.