Top Hiwi Al Balkhi Quotes

One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue to suffer? My grandmother Dodo thought it was because the were jealous. The se...

One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue to suffer? My grandmother Dodo thought it was because the were jealous. The se...

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: arrogance, atheism, bible, biblical covenant, children, christianity, divine retribution, edith stein, exile, false modesty

One notorious named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself the usual thunderous curses—'may his name be forgotten...

Christopher Hitchens

One notorious named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself the usual thunderous curses—'may his name be forgotten...

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: atheism, curses, heretics, hiwi al balkhi, irony, jewishness, jews, judaism, maimonides, messiah