I've been dabbling a bit in the writings of Hilaire Belloc. If you are willing to forgive his errant statements on economics, capitalism more precisely, everything else is on the money. (For instance, he traces the origins of the capitalist system to Calvinist doctrine when in fact its origins can be discerned in the School of Salamanca and the neo-scholastics who operated there. Professor Luckey has done much to elevate this under-appreciated tidbit of economic history.) Nevertheless, Belloc displays uncanny prescience with the following statement. It should help convince those in denial about the threat posed by radical Islam.
It has always seemed to me possible, and even probable, that there would be a resurrection of Islam and that our sons or our grandsons would see the renewal of that tremendous struggle between the Christian culture and what has been for more than a thousand years its greatest opponent. -Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies
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