We didn't love freedom enough. - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

 And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?

Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?...

The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst; the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ―Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

We learn what Islam means: When we hear ...

Let me tell you how we learn what Islam means:
When we hear bombs, we hear Islam.
When we see women dressed in black sacks, we see Islam.
When we learn of amputations and stonings, we learn about Islam.
When we read about sexism and homophobia, we read about Islam.
When we face animality, anger, and greed for power, we face Islam.
When we smell death, we smell Islam.
When we hear Muslims say peace, we know they mean war.
Islam is just one big F-ALLAH-CY!