Samson’s blindness is nothing in comparison to its modern counterpart, as Huxley points out; no longer an eye for an eye but one for a thousand or more is the order of the day. First Sham and now Falestine: dare one venture that a matter of aqida is the root malaise of the fitna, or the hunger for dawla? From shekels to gold dinars, from coitus non-interruptus to fertile propinquity, were the wise man’s words.