“the Arab-Muslim civilisation is one that is past its prime and is in its long autumn, heading toward ultimate collapse.”
Given that the A-M prime was 1300 years ago, don’t you think this has been a rather extended autumn?
don’t you think this has been a rather extended autumn?
The or rather maybe A reason for this extended autumn can be explained in Arab or Muslim world’s isolation to areas few others considered habitable, and in areas that had no tangible valuable resources.
Due to its isolation and lack of resources it remained powerless to promote their 8th Century on the rest of the world to any extent capable of taking over.
Oil changed everything in their world except Islam, it enabled them some increased powers to affect the greater world. To the extent they have thus far failed to gain much control through the oil money relates to their tribal leaders keeping the majority of oil money to themselves.
Once either their oil depletes or better plentiful energy sources are found their oil will return to not supplying them with the money to ‘reach out” and islam will shrink back to its isolation. I do not think Islam will disappear completely because it is ideally suited to isolation and lack of resources.
What we see in the Islamic world is an already collapsed culture, not one in the process of collapse. The danger is that the rats are fleeing their sunken ship... and hitching themselves to any boat that is available (ie: the West, India, China, Russia, South America).
And in the process, they are bringing the same ruin that they came from to *US*.