“There are signs,” observed Muammar Qaddafi in 2006, “that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe—without swords, without guns, without conquests.” Qaddafi himself is now dead, the victim of the Islamic fervor he helped to arouse. But his prophecy make be coming true before our eyes, as the European debt crisis drives an entire continent ever closer to fiscal insolvency and political collapse.
Nor is Europe alone in its peril. Our own American future is clouded by the same forces that threaten the Old World. And the same forces are aligned to gain from our collapse. “We will conquer Europe! We will conquer America!” boasts Sheikh Yusuf al Qarawadi, perhaps the world’s most prominent Muslim iman. But if Islamists are patient, they may find that Europe and America are already defeating themselves.
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