Recommending Rand to the Muslim World

Writing in The American Spectator, Ralph R. Reiland recommends the writings of Rand to replace the curriculum of death which is so popular in the Muslim world.

What the aforementioned young people could use is some major deprogramming. For starters, the suicide-promoting poetry in their curriculum could be replaced with some Ayn Rand, the perfect antidote for self-immolation.

In For the New Intellectual, Rand warns against “death-worshipping mystics” who control and humiliate through the use of guilt and fear, preaching that a man’s pursuit of happiness here on earth is evidence of depravity and selfishness, that his independent mind is a source of arrogance, his body a source of evil, that his liberty, self-esteem and individuality are desecrations of the commandments for obedience, humility, suffering, renunciation and self-sacrifice.

“There is no way to make a human being accept the role of a sacrificial animal,” writes Rand, “except by destroying his self-esteem."

The piece is titled Children As Bombs

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