People in the West have a woeful and dangerous ignorance of history. If you asked the average young American or European to explain the significance of the Battle of Lepanto, the Battle of Vienna, the fall of Constantinople or to explain the cultural differences between Islam and the West, you would get most likely a blank stare. At best you would get a politically correct bizarre explanation. The youth of Islam may be uneducated and backward, but they are indoctrinated, idealistic and willing to die for their cause.
Let’s help them to excel in the latter, before they can strike here.
I am pretty good in history but will admit that I know next to nothing about those subjects.
I suspect the main reason is they were not taught in the history classes I took.
I was watching an episode of “Smallville” a few days back and right out of nowhere and totally unrelated to the subject, they have one of the characters say “That is probably what God thought about the Crusades”. It is generally a pretty good show but why do they constantly have to push this pro Islam, anti Christian crap?
Don’t forget the Battle of Tours.
There’s movies and TV to watch, teams to root for, places to go and things to see. All this other stuff is just too heavy for people.