I spoke with two Germans, several weeks before the Paris Islamist attacks, on religion, ideology, and the future of Europe.  I predicted to them that Germany will be consumed by Islam due to the hordes now invading.  Both Germans were serenely, unperturbedly dismissive. He is a captain of industry, middle-aged, brilliant.  The world is his oyster, and he is in great command of industrial and financial trade.  Married with children, he lives in London and guffaws at the idea of Islamist takeover on the mainland.  She is a neuroscience graduate student, fully persuaded that religion is completely irrelevant and that these ripples of medievalism will surely die out as the Muslims settle down to the prosperity of economy. Evidence, for both of my German friends, need not interfere with the exaltation complexes that blind them.  The question is why. Europe is convinced – utterly – of the superiority of its civilization.  Europe today...(Read Full Article)