FORCE STRENGTH OF ISLAM
The contact between Islam and the West was long and deep, if only to geographical proximity, and in many Muslim countries, the French or English is commonly used. Yet between Islam and the West have not been able to produce a true amalgam. Islam has had the strength to resist the West on several floors, while retaining its specificity, which makes it irreducible not only in economic and political (as we have seen), but also on the cultural, military and religious.
On a cultural Muslim societies are very diverse, but also more open and secular (eg Turkey and Tunisia), retain their style and their particular system of values.
On the military side, even when the opponent has a clear preponderance of means (see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) still can not lead to a Muslim population made ready to fight by any means and at any cost, which can also stop the fight (truce), but never fully accept the defeat (peace).
On the religious level of Islam has had the strength to win over the masses who were already Christian and regions (North Africa, Middle East) and it is not true that conversions to Islam were made at the work of the sword (Islam has imposed its political domination, Christians and Jews, leaving a limited freedom of worship, but real). A fact that should give pause is that there has been no population converting to Islam then it came back. The Christian reconquest was always military. The attempts of evangelization of the missionaries who worked among the Muslims have always gone largely empty (contrary to what happened in other contexts). There were no conversions obtained even when he was a Francis of Assisi to try, or when there was facilitation of colonial French and English. It seems that now some countries are going to form small Christian churches of converts from Islam, but for now the phenomenon is quantitatively limited.
Fernando De Angelis http://puntoacroce.altervista.org/Proiezioni/305t-Cult_econom73_Lv.htm
02/05/2007, Updated: 01/05/2008
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