I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.
Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.
God cannot be realized through intellect.
My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.
Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.