The monster's brutal treatment at the hands of its maker and of the humans
it encounters leads it to violence and murder, but it lays the blame for its evil conduct entirely on the man who made it.
What strikes one after reading this vastly informative book is how much the conditions of this dhimmitude varied among countries, rulers, and eras, and how much the
encounter with Western modernity has added a new element of ambivalence, almost schizophrenia, in Muslim jurisprudence» sometimes
leading to emancipation and sometimes
to a
violence and hatred unknown
to the past, as in present - day Algeria.
«Lords of Chaos» • A teen (Rory Culkin) attempts
to launch Norwegian black metal in Oslo, but an
encounter with a mysterious loner (Emory Cohen)
leads to a rivalry and
violence.