Understanding Modern Islam in Proper Context

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Jun 7, 2022 at 11:16

This observer's belated understanding of the modern influences of Islam in a world that still struggles with the longtime effects of Islam's assault on the Christian (Messianic) message that still frustrates the replacement mentality of the Muslim's modern identity in a world that recovered from those original assaults, reading the work by Wilfred Smith may have provided the rudimentary 'western perception' this reader might have perused in order to achieve a more competent understanding of why Islam still tries in a time that for them has passed them by and will never ascend again to the heights of yesteryear, Turkiye notwithstanding.
In the stead of that understanding, Dr. Pipes' academia in this forum has provided the intercessory knowledge that has greatly assisted in the modern understanding; so thanks, Dr. Pipes.

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