As he points out in a wonderfully compact paragraph, the greatest novels about modern tyranny “all powerfully depict totalitarian society’s assault on…personal love.” But as Huxley, Orwell and Zamyatin all remind us, total tyranny is impossible; subversion invariably sets in.
The compulsion to extinguish spontaneous love, as Jamie tells us, is the point of intersection between the ideologies of the Left and the jihadis. Some of the most fascinating pages of United in Hate spell out the details. Jamie reminds us of things we failed to appreciate at the time, as for example the details of the will of the leading 9/11 terrorist, Mohammed Atta. No women were to be present at his funeral, and were to be banned from ever visiting his grave. Moreover, his shame about his own body was spelled out: “He who washes my body around my genitals should wear gloves so that I am not touched there.”
clipped from pajamasmedia.com
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