By the way, to say that islam is spent is to say nothing. ‘We’ are spent, too. I must put the ‘we’ in quotes because I personally do not believe the usual breakdown is accurate, insofar as there may well be a ‘Christian/Capitalistic’ side, but if that means capitalism as we have it now, in which the term ‘free market’ means exactly what it always meant, open war on the poor, I as a fervent Catholic opt out. I believe in small c capitalism, meaning lots of them, and regulated to the degree that monopolizing is impossible. I, like the distributists, usually associated with Catholicism, do believe in a re-distribution of ownership–over time, over generations, through taxation structures, no class warfare–but not of income, nor may I believe in unfettered competition. The great popes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were explicit regarding social justice: don’t underpay the poor, don’t underfeed or underhouse the poor, don’t overwork the poor. The requirements of anything like justice demand, however, a religious state. Justice will never be achieved in secularism. That is why we are spent, and the same plague will overrun islam, even though they think they believe in a religious state. So did Norway, once. So did England. So did they all, breaking away from the great benign force of Catholicism. But the two terms, ‘religious freedom’ and ‘religious state’ are not possible together. I opt only for a Catholic state. I guess that’s why I am writing science fiction. We need the ‘dear distance’ and we’ve lost it. That’s an interesting islamic concept.