The moral evil of human action divides people and breeds discord. However, it comes in many guises that may easily deceive us. And for those whose heart is empty, nothing is easier than pretending to be good. Outward piety and renunciation may well mask the worst of cruelty.

In some periods, there is ample cause for optimism (e.g. around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989), in others for the opposite: pessimism. At present, there are many signs that good is giving way to evil. In the countries of the West, we seem to be setting ourselves up for a strange future. Accumulating events both inside and outside our borders relegate us to a secondary role in the ongoing world drama.

For millennia, we in the West have stood for a particular outlook on life. Longing for freedom, honoring the word (as in oratory and logical proof), and godly at the same time, we have integrated structural elements from Greek philosophy, Roman law, and Jewish worship. These pillars of Western civilization, as we know it, have now begun to tremble. Our own world is breaking up under the triadic advance of (a) tyrannical imperialism, (b) Islamic supremacism, and (c) revolutionary totalitarianism.

Apparently, we have to prepare for another world order. It looks as if we, the heirs of both Western Christianity and the ideas of the Enlightenment, the people of the free world, are about to lose our “unalienable rights”. As things stand, our “life” and “pursuit of happiness”, in the words of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, with “liberty” in any meaningful sense being excluded beforehand, may ultimately depend on the benevolence of foreign masters.

As their number increases day by day, Muslims of the diaspora are consolidating their power. And in the style of pre-revolutionary Bolsheviks, Islamists are scheming to take over and impose their rules, inspired by the expansionism of the Rashidun Caliphate. (So far, they are in control of public space in European........

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