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"There is in Islam a paradox which is perhaps a permanent
menace. The great creed born in the desert creates a kind of ecstasy of the
very emptiness of its own land, and even, one may say, out of the emptiness of
its own theology... A void is made in the heart of Islam which has to be filled
up again and again by a mere repetition of the revolution that founded it.
There are no sacraments; the only thing that can happen is a sort of
apocalypse, as unique as the end of the world; so the apocalypse can only be
repeated and the world end again and again. There are no priests; and yet this equality
can only breed a multitude of lawless prophets almost as numerous as priests.
The very dogma that there is only one Mahomet produces an endless procession of
Mahomets."
~G. K. Chesterton
