Thursday, April 16, 2009
A Message from 14th century Persia to the present-day mullahs in Afghanistan.
You puritans on the cold stone floor, you are not safe
From the tricks of God's zeal; the distance between the cloister
And the Zoroastrian tavern is not, after all, that great.
--Hafez, (born 1315 Shiraz-died 1390 Shiraz) (translation, Robert Bly) from The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez.
If you missed the article in the Times about Hamid Karzai's move to legalize marital rape for Shiites here it is.