Posted on 10/16/2025 7:23:51 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
As Israel brings its campaign in Gaza to a close, it will still have to overcome the threats that surround it, just as it has done with Hezbollah, Syria, and the influence of Iran. Nevertheless, the trajectory is unmistakable: Israel is moving steadily toward stability and deeper integration in the region. The Abraham Accords will widen. Israelis will travel freely for holidays in Riyadh and Damascus.
This is not naive optimism. It is the logical outcome of shifting alliances, pragmatic cooperation, and the recognition among many Arab states that coexistence is not only desirable but necessary. Slowly, painfully, the Middle East is inching toward coexistence and progress.
While the Middle East edges forward, Europe may be heading in the opposite direction. Modern, liberal Europe, so firmly bound to the creed of political correctness, finds itself entangled with radical Islam. Instead of responsibly bridging cultures, too many of its leaders choose blindness over clarity.
The danger is not Islam itself, but the radical elements that exploit the openness of democratic systems to erode them from within. As Samuel Huntington warned in his landmark book The Clash of Civilizations, the defining conflicts of our era will not be primarily over ideology or economics, but along cultural and civilizational lines.
What we are witnessing in Europe today is not an accident. It is precisely the pattern Huntington described: liberal societies, unwilling to defend their own values, becoming vulnerable to forces that do not share them.
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Several European countries have been SOLD OUT by their ruling elites.
We took a vacation to the UK back in August, you can really see the clash of cultures there. The locals call east London “little Bangladesh”, the entire area is trashed out with lots of graffiti. The rest of London by comparison, is pretty nice.
“The danger is not Islam itself”
...hmmm, not sure I agree with that but then I’m not trying to get published.
In a discussion with a Persian Muslim women two decades ago I mentioned "moderate Islam". Her loud response was that there is no "moderate Islam", there is only Islam.
Go figure.
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