When Will the State of the Country be Sound?

                                                                 Italy, 1972

Restore balance to our politics: the farther right the government goes, the farther left the people should go. "Moderates" in a time of fascism are complicit with the thugs.

Naguib Mahfouz asked 'Abd-Rabbih al-Ta'ih: "When will the state of the country be sound?" The Shaykh replied: "When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity."