Interesting and must-read article about the clash between Islam and Christianity – in Africa, where Christianity surges towards a majority of the population:
Philip Jenkins, a professor of history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University says the remarkable thing about the recent clashes between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria is that they are not remarkable. In a process largely unnoticed in the West, billions of people in Asia and Africa have swapped out their indigenous faiths for either Christianity or Islam. And to an even greater astonishment of Western intellectuals most have chosen Christianity. Now the equalization of numbers has caused a fault line to appear through the Third World at about the tenth degree of latitude where the two aggregations face each other “at daggers drawn”…
…With the numbers between Christians and Muslims equalizing in the region of the 10th degree of latitude, many places formerly dominated by Islam are now doubtful ground. It’s upsetting the equilibrium…
This being something I’ve been aware of for something like a decade now – perhaps longer. Probably because I don’t have a bias against Christianity, I was able notice that while Christianity has largely died out in Europe, it is surging in Africa and Asia – and undergoing a remarkable revival in South and central America (the United States, itself, is a bit of a special case – Christianity has largely died out among the elite, but not among the majority). Of course, as the linked article notes, Islam has grown as well. But not nearly as much as Christianity. Thus in places where there has never really been sectarian violence, we’re seeing it more and more often (and in spite of what might be said, it all stems from Islamist militancy).
The battles of life – the real ones, which people will actually sacrifice for – are all moral battles. Fights between right and wrong. The world is choosing up sides and Islam, losing the battle, is lashing out. Lashing out at us, of course – but also lashing out at Third World Christians. Not for anything the inoffensive Christians of Nigeria and elsewhere have done, but for what they are. Do you understand that, liberals?
There is intense hatred and fear in Islam – needless to say, its among the ruling elite and those who aspire to become the rulers, but the hatred and fear is there and it is the main motivator. They hate the west for its immorality and decadence – for its cowardice and sloth. They hate the United States for those reasons, but also for our Believers who will not back down. They hate Third World Christianity because it beckons their own people – it threatens to turn the hearts and minds of the “hewers of wood and drawers of water” of Islam…freed from Islam’s stagnation, such people would no longer tolerate their subordinate position.
It’ll be interesting to see how it all comes out. Right now, we have a parish priest here in Las Vegas who is from West Africa – hearing him recite the Stations of the Cross is wonderful, given his accent. Yes, we refer to him as “Father”, and the very whitest of American Christians meekly accept instruction from him. He is one of many such in America – Christians from the Third World come to restore Christian faith in the West; and expand Christian faith in the Third World.
The only thing certain is that the week kneed who refuse to believe in any religion will have just about nothing to say in what happens.
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