Alea Iacta Est

Camus and Tolstoy: Border Intellectuals Avant La Lettre.

Tolstoy in the Caucasus, Camus in Algiers. Both men breathed the atmosphere of Islamic intellectual and pietistic traditions and, as evidenced by their writings, absorbed the tawhidic "folk orientation" that characterizes them.

This is how Islamicate civilization spreads its tendrils: not overtly, by the "sword," but subtly, through linguistic practice, through audition, and, ultimately, through the nervous system.

The Islamic "conquest" of America began in earnest with the military invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Welcome, America, to Mazeppa's wild ride!