“The complaints change – a hundred years ago our Victorian ancestors accused the Islamic world of being sensuous and decadent, with an overdeveloped penchant for sodomy; now Martin Amis attacks it for what he believes is its mass sexual frustration and homophobia.”

Thank God for the prime meridian, otherwise we wouldn’t know where to locate the universal light of “Western” values and the irrational darkness of the “East”.

Read it here.