Christianity survived being “crushed” because the entire message of Christianity is love and the triumph of love through suffering. Christians did not take up arms against the Romans: they went humbly to the arenas and were hideously tortured and killed. They triumphed because they kept the Faith, suffered and died, time and time again, and finally the message impressed the rest of the world enough so that their tormentors saw it and were converted. Christians never killed anyone.
Islam is the only world religion that makes warfare a fundamental part of its beliefs. It is the only one that, from the start, has declared warfare and the sword to be a legitimate means of “conversion.”
While I suspect that its ultimate defeat will be through the power of Christian love, in the meantime, societies that wish to protect themselves from it can do so only one way: through meeting the sword with the sword. Islamism will only be driven off, if not actually ended, with bombs and bullets.
If Islam calms down and decides it just wants to talk, fine; we are not attacking it. But Islam has had 1400 years to calm down and has never done so, and I’d say the possibilities of having it do so now are just not very good.
Don’t underestimate the power of the message of hate. When mothers are proud that their sons have been suicide bombers, you know you’re up against a rock.
(Gold Star Mothers?)
That was a GREAT post!