This connects with my previous post, "Crusade vs. Jihad", showing that there is more than one axis of re-vitalized Christianity to oppose militant expansionist Islam. In an ideal world I would of course prefer a secular opposition to any sort of theocracy, but things are not promising in that direction.
As always, "be careful what you wish for" goes with "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", but this article touches on the enervation of Europe, suggesting that the opposition to a Caliphate future rests elsewhere. Of particular interest:
"Islam might defeat the western Europeans, simply by replacing their diminishing numbers with immigrants, but it will crumble beneath the challenge from the East. "
and
"Years ago I speculated that if Mecca ever is razed, it will be by an African army marching north; now the greatest danger to Islam is the prospect of a Chinese army marching west."
I may point out that Mecca has been despoiled before, in fact by the early Wahhabis (see the book God's Terrorists by Charles Allen), but to date not actually razed. I don't see flattening Mecca as a realistically useful way to counter the people who would destroy us, but it would nicely polarize any other Muslims to a real drop-the-gloves us-vs.-them Götterdämmerung.
If things head in that direction, I suppose it won't be any time soon, but just because the Western "progressives" pooh-pooh all of our secular and religious heritage, the rest of the world does not share our collective self-loathing and desire to be erased. Something to keep in mind...
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