The Green Gardens of Cordoba
Just read an exceedingly interesting article entitled The Green Gardens of Cordoba; it concerns the tendency of Mohammedan culture to look back, not forward.
They dream of going back to the 1400s, not because those were better times, per se, but because those were the years when Islam and Arabic culture were, in their eyes at least, dominant.
But it’s interesting that they do not project this dream forward into the future. They dream of going back to Cordoba. They don’t, at least obviously, dream of going forward into a better future where Islam and Arabs are dominant. They seek to undo, to revert to, to somehow recover, not to make new, not to build upon the foundations of or improve upon the reality that exists.
He makes a very good point.
