Valentine's Day is a light-hearted matter, but efforts to repress it symbolize an intent to make war on modernity. In this way, the generational and cultural struggle over heart-shaped cards points to a battle now underway for the soul of Islam. Can the religious authorities suppress what has come to be known as “Lover's Day”? Must Muslim governments double as nanny states, getting in the way of their youth's fun? Or do they have the confidence to allow families and peer pressure to keep this holiday within acceptable bounds? Related Topics: Islam , Middle East patterns receive the latest by email: subscribe to daniel pipes' free mailing list This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is presented as an integral whole with complete and accurate information provided about its author, date, place of publication, and original URL. Comment on this item वैलेन्टाइन दिवस अपने में हल्का विषय है परन्तु इसका दमन करने वालों की प्रवृत्ति संकेत देती है कि इसमें आधुनिकता के विरूद्ध युद्ध अन्तर्निहित है। इस प्रकार दिल बने कार्डों को लेकर पीढ़ीगत और संस्कृतिगत संघर्ष संकेत करता है कि इस्लाम की आत्मा के लिए संघर्ष चल रहा है। क्या धर्माधिकारी प्रेम के दिवस के रूप में माने जाने वाले दिन का दमन कर पायेंगे।
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Like so many other conservatives, I had come to assume that the Tea Party, the 2010 election results, Solyndra, 8 percent unemployment, Benghazi, and an aroused opposition (said one Romney adviser : on election day, “you just don't want to get in the way of a Republican heading into the polls”) assured defeat for Barack Obama's bid for a second term. His victory was therefore particularly bitter. Was I alone in sleeping badly and avoiding the news for days? So many analyses have been proffered for what went wrong: Romney was too conservative or not conservative enough, he ran on his biography, he shied away from winning issues, he could not connect with the masses . So many conclusions have also been drawn: conservatives need to modernize (hello, gay partnerships), they must reach out to non-whites (welcome, illegal immigrants), they should nominate true conservatives. Myself, I subscribe to the “politics is downstream from culture” argument. While conservatives sometimes prevail in policy debates, they consistently lose in the classroom, on the best-seller list, on television, at the movies, and in the world of arts. These liberal bastions, which provide the feeders for Democratic party politics, did not develop spontaneously but result from decades of hard work traceable back to the ideas of Antonio Gramsci. अनेक अन्य परम्परावादियों की ही भाँति मेरा भी अनुमान था कि टी पार्टी, 2010 के चुनाव परिणाम , सोलिंड्रा , 8 प्रतिशत बेरोजगारी , बेनगाजी तथा एक उठते हुये विपक्षी वातावरण के चलते ( चुनाव के दिन रोमनी के एक सलाहकार ने कहा था, ” आप रिपबलिकन विजय का हिस्सा नहीं बनना चाहते ) कि बराक ओबामा का दूसरी बात विजयी होना सम्भव नहीं है। इस कारण उनकी विजय विशेष रूप से कड्वी रही। क्या मैं अकेला था जो कि ठीक से सो नहीं पाया और दिन के समाचारों की उपेक्षा करता रहा?
