The churches of the Arab East are those of the catacombs, those of the Faith, of course, but also those of obscurity. They still define themselves in opposition to an imaginary paganism. They still haven’t left the labyrinths. They have never gotten the knife in the belly that the great reforms were to the Church in the West. They’re not concerned with human pain. They’re not in actual communication with any force other than the Dragon. The sword of Saint George is what inspires their actions. Set against these churches is an Islam that forgets all too often that the divine mercy affirmed by the first verse of the Koran can only be expressed by human mercy. Their shared existence is a dry flood whose passage leaves more cadavers than flowers. The four young men seated in this classroom are not merely judges. They are the victims of a very long and very old tradition of man’s capitulation before Destiny. For them, the decision of the group is the one thing they must defend and assert by whatever means. They train themselves to become executioners, all the while believing themselves to be judges. Etel Adnan Sitt Marie Rose 1978 (65-66)
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