Will the Vacuum caused by the death of ‘morality’ be filled by Islam? The answer makes the West Shudder

Quite clearly an idea has been instilled into the Western mind that Islam happens to be the next great ‘threat’ to the West and the liberal-cum-secular civilization it espouses. Previously communism had been perceived as a threat of that nature.
In the centuries gone by, when Islam was in progressive decline, and most-nearly all-Muslim countries had been subjugated and colonialized, the West had written off the world of the Crescent as a political entity and force.
But the post-world war II realities have changed the West’s
mind-set about Islam. The ‘defiance’ that has sprung up in the Middle East, the continuous surge of ‘Turkey, the surge of Indonesia and Malaysia as Asian forces, the rapidity with which Islam has been spreading in Africa, Europe and America, and most importantly the emergence of Muslim Pakistan as one of the acknowledged nuclear powers of the world, have all combined to compel the Western mind to re-evaluate the position of the Crescent in the political scenario of Tomorrow’s World.
The probability of Islam becoming a much greater ‘nuisance’
in the world of tomorrow than communism was in the recent past, has suddenly acquired the dimensions of a near-certainty in the Western mind. It is potentially a greater ‘nuisance’ than communism because it has a long history of dominance over the Christian West, before the Industrial Revolution in Europe. No wonder during the Gulf War days (1990-1991) there was a great deal of emphasis in the West’s propaganda literature on the term “anti-Christ”. This term has been in vogue in the West for more than a thousand years, and it is intended to define Islam.
In the era of the so-called War on Terrorism, Islam is being painted as not only ‘anti-Christ’ but also ‘anti-civilization’, ‘anti-human rights’ and ‘anti-progress’.
A set of ‘terms’ has been ‘grouped’ together to be mentioned unfailingly in association with Islam, whenever the subject crops up.
Extremist Islam. Fundamentalist Islam. Bearded Islam.
Political Islam. Militant Islam.
And now Talibanized Islam.
This hate-Islam campaign, being carried out in the West, and in the Westernized circles of our own society, may well be (and is) sinisterly designed and motivated; but in my opinion it is a product of Fear too. The Western mind, deep in its recesses, knows that Islam may well have the right answer to the ‘moral depravity and ‘ethical death’ that over-aggressive permissiveness of the ‘Rights-Obsessed’ western culture has caused.
Morality is dying in the West. And the West knows it. Will the vacuum caused by the death of ‘morality’ be filled by Islam? The answer makes the West shudder.
(First published on 17-04-2009)