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| Paul Belien : Is Islam Dying? Europe Certainly Is |
| 2006-09-26 |
| From the desk of Paul Belien Dr Koenraad Elst, one of Belgium’s best orientalists and an occasional contributor to this website (if I had time I would translate more of his Dutch-language contributions into English), told me last week that he thinks “Islam is in decline, despite its impressive demographic and military surge” – which according to Dr Elst is merely a “last upheaval.” He acknowledges, however, that this decline can take some time (at least in terms of the individual human life span) and that it is possible that Islam will succeed in becoming the majority religion in Europe before collapsing. I am not a specialist of Islam. Hence, I do not know what to think of this analysis. Perhaps it can be argued that Islam is in agony, and that this is precisely the reason why Muslims reacted so sensitively to twelve, mostly inoffensive, Danish cartoons earlier this year and why they respond in a fury beyond all reason to the words of a 14th century Byzantine Emperor quoted last week by Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope emphasized that he did not approve of the quote, but the reactions of Muslims to the Emperor’s words “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman,” only lends credibility to what the Emperor said. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #1 SO much Intellectialist-Scientifist-Secularist, anti-materialist Utopia wiped out by something as provincial as not enuff kids due to not enuff sex due to not enuff parents/adults wanting to have sex due to Socialism-Governmentism failing to live up to its promise to take care of everyone + everything without want nor need to work due to not having enuff tax revenues due to not having enuff taxpayers due to not having enuff kids due to ... due to...due to ..... SECULARISM-PROGRESSIVISM > says that the world will be taken over by something(s) BETTER, NOT WORSE!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-09-26 23:40 |