Monarch after monarch paid the price for turning Europe into a blood-bath where some 20 million young men were sent to their graves at the behest of Monarchic feuding.
Today in the Middle East Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Yemen and Algeria, are all enmeshed in upheaval and nobody has a clear view of any future beyond today for these countries.
The West in particular nervously awaits the verdict of history in a part of the world where it has so much at stake, and where, if the tide of history turns against it, the West will have to do more than sit on the fence and pray.
But it is not only the West, but also militant Islam that is trying to decipher the runes on an almost daily basis. For Iran is hoping that the tide will eventually turn in its favour, and it can be at the centre of an Islamic empire bent upon the destruction of the infidel and the Jew.
In all of these countries those people protesting are calling for democracy to be instated and free speech to be its only master. Such an arrangement would indeed suit the West, but it could also suit militant Islam.
If, through the ballot box, an Islamist party were to be elected , would such a party be willing to relinquish power through the ballot box once its term in office came to an end?
In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood are making all the right noises in order to be part of the democratic process. For if polls are to be trusted, the Brotherhood would be a formidable opponent for any secular party to compete with in that part of the world; and if they earn the right to govern and do so with a radical Islamic agenda, they will not want to be removed from power.
In the Islamic world democracy is little more than a means to an end for the Islamists who seek to bring the world to Islam - just as in the West communism sought the same goal and needed only one election in Russia to govern it for the next 70 years.
PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD no doubt sees Iran as pivotal in the unfolding events. Like the old Soviet Union, which saw itself as the Sun around which all communist nations were mere satellites; so Iran would like to see the Islamic world.
Iran’s purpose at the moment is to help Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban and al-Queada to take on Israel and the West. But what if the outcome of the unexpected upheavals in the Middle East manage to expand its influence beyond terrorist groups to whole nations and peoples in the Islamic world – what then for the West?
We in the West have never been weaker than we are today when faced with such a threat from the Islamic world. If the Islamic world managed to speak with one voice (which is what Ahmadinejad wants), and that voice sought the destruction of the West; the Islamic world could conquer. Never in its history has Islam had such a chance to conquer Europe. In the past Europe managed to halt such an expansion in its tracks. But today the Islamic world could not be stopped, if it so desired the conquest of its faith over all others.
Europe’s frailty of leadership with its opening up of its boarders to some 15 million Muslims; with the prospect of a further 80 million more joining from Turkey if allowed entry to the European community, shows just how strong Islam is in the modern world.
We in Europe are highly vulnerable if the events unfolding in the Middle East meet the expectations of the Iranian leadership. In this country, for instance, our politicians, policy wonkers and civil servants, have fretted about how our Muslim population of over two million people would react to racial slurs, charges of Islamism and any reference that could upset their population.
We have allowed and still allow foreign Imams to teach and preach hatred of the kaffir in our Mosques. While the Mosques have become no-go areas where the law is forbidden to walk for fear of upsetting the Muslim community. We have allowed such a circumstance to come about because we have allowed over two million Muslims to live among us and now our leaders fear an explosion of resentment and so prefer to bury their head in the sand rather than to confront. Confrontation is anathema to our leaders who still think that Islam can be made docile like the dear old Anglican church and be drawn into our ways.
THE EVENTS unfolding in the Middle East are crucial to what the world will look like in two or three decades time. Islam is a proselytising faith that, like Christianity, seeks to convert the world to its way of seeing things. In the past Christianity tried to bring about such conversions by means of force.
It was a medieval method of advancement that eventually met its match with Reformation – still, Christianity has survived in all of its many aspects, until today.
But Islam has not been put upon by any Reformation. It has not been so restructured. So it flourishes today in its medieval armour. Its whole presence in the modern world may be antediluvian, but its advancement is real and dangerous .
The President of Libya , Colonel Gaddafi , once said that all the Muslim world had to do was sit and wait; demographics would do what was needed as far as the West was concerned. He was of course referring to the millions of Muslims living in Europe and the West generally?
The Libyan President may prove to have been somewhat complacent if he ends up like Mubarak. But nevertheless he will have delivered, in a moment of lucidity, a profound insight to those in the Muslim world engaged upon the world’s Islamification through violence.
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