Culture Wars

I’m only about 2/3 of the way through the book so far, but I already know that I’ll be recommending America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, by Mark Steyn, to anyone who does not yet realize that radical Islam is at war with the West.

I would like to highlight just the episode from the book where Mark Steyn tells how a Christian army in France defeated a Muslim army 200 miles south of Paris in October 732. Another book, The Great Heresies, by Hilaire Belloc, describes how “[t]he last effort [the Mohammedan world] made to destroy Christendom … failed during the last years of the seventeenth century, only just over [three] hundred years ago. Vienna … was almost taken and only saved by the Christian army under the command of the King of Poland on a date that ought to be among the most famous in history—September 11, 1683.” Hmmm. “[A] date that ought to be among the most famous in history,” but one that was unremarkable until eight years ago and still has not been given the historical significance that is its due, leastwise not by the West. And yet Hilaire Belloc’s book was first published in 1938.

The Great Heresies reads like a history of Europe on the eve of World War II; America Alone is a characterization of the West on the eve of World War IV. I recommend both of them—and when you’re finished with those, you can read the rest of the books on my bookshelf.

World War IV is coming. Radical Islam’s idea of peace in the Middle East is when Israel has ceased to exist and every Jew has been eliminated from the Islamic world. Meanwhile, radical Islam’s stealth conquest of Western Europe proceeds apace. And does anyone truly believe that the mullahs in Iran will stop thinking of America as the Great Satan if only we are nice enough?

I for one do not intend to convert to Islam or to live like a second-class citizen in an Islamic world.