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| − | ==Jacques Ellul== | + | ==Hilaire Belloc== |
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| − | Jacques Ellul (1912 – 1994) was a French philosopher, law professor, sociologist, lay theologian, and Christian anarchist.
| + | Belloc was an Anglo-French historian and one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was also orator, poet, sailor, satirist, man of letters, soldier, and political activist. He lived from 1870 to 1953. |
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| − | {{Quote||In a major encyclopedia, one reads phrases such as: "Islam expanded in the eighth or ninth centuries ..."; "This or that country passed into Muslim hands..." But care is taken not to say ''how'' Islam expanded, ''how'' countries "passed into [Muslim] hands." .. Indeed, it would seem as if events happened by themselves, through a miraculous or amicable operation... Regarding this expansion, little is said about ''jihad''. And yet it all happened through war!<BR>...the ''jihad'' is an institution. and not an event, that is to say it is a part of the normal functioning of the Muslim world... The conquered populations change status (they become ''dhimmis''), and the ''shari'a'' tends to be put into effect integrally, overthrowing the former law of the country. The conquered territories do not simply change "owners."<ref>Jacques Ellul, forward to ''Les Chrestientes d'Orient entre Jihad et Dhimmitude. VIIe-XXe siecle'' (1991); English translation in the preface to Bat Ye'or, ''The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam'' (Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996), pp. 18-19.</ref>}} | + | {{Quote||Millions of modern people of the white civilization, that is, the civilization of Europe and America_have forgotten all about Islam. They have never come in contact with it. they take for granted that it is decaying, and that anyway it is just a foreign religion which will not concern them. It is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had, and may at any moment become as large a menace in the future as it has been in the past.<ref name=HB1>Hilaire Belloc, THE GREAT HERESIES, Chapter 4, 1936, [https://web.archive.org/web/20000817183410/http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMELIBR/HERESY4.TXT]</ref>}} |
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| | + | {{Quote||Cultures spring from religions; ultimately the vital force which maintains any culture is its philosophy, its attitude toward the universe; the decay of a religion involves the decay of the culture corresponding to it—we see that most clearly in the breakdown of Christendom today. […] In Islam there has been no such dissolution of ancestral doctrine—or, at any rate, nothing corresponding to the universal break-up of religion in Europe. The whole spiritual strength of Islam is still present in the masses of Syria and Anatolia, of the East Asian mountains, of Arabia, Egypt and North Africa. The final fruit of this tenacity, the second period of Islamic power, may be delayed-but I doubt whether it can be permanently postponed.<ref name=HB1 />}} |
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