Day 1,265: mullah
Now that the mullahs have forfeited the faith of their people, they have no other lever but violence.
Artwork of the day
Mullah Rahim and Mullah Karim quarrel on his way to the market
Vasily Vereshchagin
Original Title: Мулла Рахим и мулла Керим по дороге на базар ссорятся
Date: 1873
Style: Realism, Orientalism
Genre: genre painting
Location: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Word of the day
mullah: an Islamic religious teacher or leader
forfeit: to lose the right to do or have something because you have broken a rule
lever: something you use, often unfairly, to try to persuade someone to do what you want
Quote of the day
“The morgue is the Mullah's mint: Why hang on to life in this world when our guardians are discounting the price of life and selling martyr's tickets to paradise?”
― Amir Khalil