“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green, 1899
We may look back on facing down Communism as being a rather balmy interlude in the real cold/hot war against Islam…one that has already taken the Citadel of the East – Constantinople – and which threatens to deprive us of Europe within our lifetime, as demographic collapse and secularism destroy the Continent of which Belloc once wrote, ‘Europe is the Faith/the Faith is Europe.”
This war might well be waged by the global South, which ‘The Next Christendom” identified as the emerging bastion of Christianity. One hopes that American policymakers understand and prepare for these trends, and that they work to awaken Europe (both eastern and western) to their danger while action is still possible.
A friend told me of an incident he witnessed while in college in Reno, Nevada, a moslem coming from behind and killing another moslem with a long knife. He said these people were like no other he had ever seen.