I don’t think that modernity is goodness, but it is occurring. Islam is quite akin to conservative Christianity in its everyday values. Religiously minded students indicate that Muslim students have very high moral standards and that is an admirable trait.
I believe radical Islam is losing and will lose. If we can stop them from getting WMD we’ll win no matter what. People like air conditioning, cable and food.
The biggest danger we face is losing our next generation: http://www.pewglobal.org/2011/11/17/the-american-western-european-values-gap/
Take a look toward the bottom on cultural superiority. We’re becoming more like Europe thanks to liberals and government schooling. The breakout just gets worse as you get younger. I’d like to see the crosstabs going back several decades, but if Americans don’t think we’re exceptional then we may lose v. radical Islam.
If you’re going to share “culture” you best start at home. Our kids don’t think America is exceptional. That’s dangerous.
I completly disagree and think that you are utterly wrong.
If you went outside your backyard going in the big world and leazrning a little bit of history you would understand that christianism in is history INCLUDING the so-called middle-age(which i repeat is not separated from the previous and subsequent periods !) has nothing to do with the islamic so-called(fake) “morality” .
You must have a very vague understanding of what morality is.
For example Monogamy was a revolution in many societies at the times of J.Christ and women’s dignity has been clearly taught and stated and founded by the christianism.
About the christian Middle-Age you are making the average mistake of anachronism. After the end of the roman empire a new society was trying to build itself and christianism became the prominant religion among different peoples , “tribes”, with their own pagan traditions.
All the people at that time didn’t become suddenly perfect christians....To make it short , i must go, compare the Gospel and J.Christ to Koran and Muhamad . That’s the good and right comparison.
In addition the middle-age is an age of beginning of new societie, an age of birth , of hard work and building.
You didn’t understand(???) when i told that in Europe and in the byzantine empire the “middle-age” was the age of the building of universities, hospitals ,art and cathedrals and monasteries...
Don’t hide yourself behind words like “crusades”. At the beginning of the Middle-Age “christian societies” have been violently and steadily attacked by islamic heirds from all parts(from South first and East )