NOBLER than paganism; cheaper than Christianity." So, last week, an Anglican bishop in a London speech, described the message of Islam.
London (and all Christendom) is newly aware of Islam. The shouts of Teheran mobs, the shot that killed King Abdullah, echo years, the world's chancelleries. As it has for 1,300 years, the riddle of Islam still confronts the West. It stands there, some 300 million strong, not giving an inch from Casablanca to the Sulu Sea.
Islam no longer presses upon the West with the all-conquering armies that swept east to India and west to North Africa's Atlas Mountains within 50 years...
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