Austin James

“Qurʾanic rhetoric treats the divine revelation as so transparently true that only willful disobedience could inspire its rejection.”
― Carl W. Ernst, How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations

“But there is a sense in which early Arabic script was primarily a memory aid for readers who already knew the contents of the text. In many ways, the written text of the Qurʾan was inseparable from, and indeed relied upon, the authority of oral transmission.”
― Carl W. Ernst, How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations

“We are asked to believe that it always existed, that poor countries are poor because their lands have always been infertile or their people unproductive.”
― Michael Parenti, Against Empire

“Such “multiple sourcing” enables GM to ride out strikes in one country by stepping up production in another, playing workers of various nations against one other in order to discourage wage and benefit demands and undermine labor union strategies.”
― Michael Parenti, Against Empire