[BGHater]

'What the outcome will be of the evangelization of Muslims lies beyond all speculation: that is a matter of every soul's relationship to God. But the global agenda has changed, not through the machinations of statesmen or the word-mincing of public intellectuals, but through the soul of a single man. Benedict's Regensburg challenge to Islam now demarcates the encounter between the West and the Muslim world, and nothing will be the same.'

[BGHater]

Typo. Please Correct Source to: Asia Times Online

[PGalt]

OUTSTANDING article by Spengler. Thanks for posting.

[kalee]

ping

[teeman8r]

may the lord protect this man of faith and his family.

and may more muslims see the inherent violence in what they preach and do.

God’s will be done.

teeman

[Oratam]

"I have a mustard seed and I'm not afraid to use it."

[livius]

If the Catholic youth of Europe are offered a great task - to evangelize the Muslims whose restlessness threatens to push Europe into social chaos - many of them may heed the call. As I wrote in 2005, "Now that everyone is talking about Europe's demographic death, it is time to point out that there exists a way out: convert European Muslims to Christianity." Today's Europeans stem from the melting-pot of the barbarian invasions that replaced the vanishing population of the Roman Empire. The genius of the Catholic Church was to absorb them. If Benedict XVI can convert this new wave of invaders from North Africa and the Middle East, history will place him on a par with his great namesake, the founder of the monastic order the bears his name...

This is probably one of the best and most perceptive articles the ever-perceptive Spengler has written. Every word is worth reading.

Thanks for posting.

[livius]

Muslims suffer from a stultifying spiritual emptiness, depicted most poignantly by the Syrian Arab poet Adonis (see Are the Arabs already extinct?, Asia Times Online, May 8, 2007). Muslim traditional society cannot withstand the depredations of globalized culture, and radical Islam arises from a despairing nostalgia for the disappearing past. Why would Muslims trade the spiritual vacuum of Islam for the spiritual sewer of Dutch hedonism? The souls of Muslims are in agony. The blandishments of the decadent West offer them nothing but shame and deracination. Magdi Allam agrees with his former co-religionists in repudiating the degraded culture of the modern West, and offers them something quite different: a religion founded upon love.

Ping to an important article. Worth clicking through and reading the whole thing.

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[Varda]

” thus my mind has been released from the obscurantism of an ideology which legitimates lying and dissimulation, the violent death that leads to homicide and suicide, blind submission and tyranny........

I have discovered for the first time the true and only God, which is the God of Faith and Reason ...”

What a wonderful article. Thank you for posting.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Outstanding article. If C+L joins in the evangelization, I will (God strengthening me, a sinner) join C+L.

[Biggirl]

Excellent article.

[RightWhale]

Maybe so. We’ll see.

[the invisib1e hand]

Mustard-seed Bump.

[TexanToTheCore]

bttt

[hocndoc]

I’m stealing this man’s description of the Pope for my tax line: “I have a mustard seed and I’m not afraid to use it.”

Amen!