November 24, 2006
Pim's Ghost : Re-examining Islam
The lovely and talented Pim's Ghost, blogging at "What Would Charles Martel Do?" features an interesting essay highlighting Hilaire Belloc and his writings on Islam:
Millions of modern people of the white civilization—that is, the civilization of Europe and America—have forgotten all about Islam. They have never come in contact with it. They take for granted that it is decaying, and that, anyway, it is just a foreign religion which will not concern them. It is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had, and may at any moment become as large a menace in the future as it has been in the past.That may not be a particularly brilliant insight in 2006, but Belloc wrote those words in 1936, in a time when Communism and Fascism were considered the great threats to Western Civilization. As Belloc noted, Islam was, for the most part, 'off the radar' in the Western mind.
By Ragnar Danneskjold, R.I.N.O. Hunter at November 24, 2006 08:30 AM | | l digg this
