The ideas of two commentators:
1. William Kilpatrick
". . . There are approximately 1.7 billion Muslims in the world, but only about 16 million Jews. Those aren't very good odds. However, there are about 1.3 billion Catholics worldwide. Potentially, the Catholic Church is a powerful center of resistance to Islam. It certainly has been in the past. Unfortunately, that's not the case today. What are those 1.3 billion Catholics doing in regard to the struggle with Islam?
Well, essentially, very little.
. . . "If you graduated from a Catholic college, you can be almost certain that your alma mater is, in one way or the other, helping Islam to win the culture war.
And then there's the bishops' response to mass Muslim migration into Europe. It's no secret that the bishops have been calling for more migration and more welcoming on the part of Europeans, but they seem blind to the realities of the situation. Above all, they don't seem to grasp the big picture, namely that in welcoming masses of Muslim migrants, they are also welcoming the cruelties of Sharia Law, the oppression of women, the end of free speech, and the persecution of Christians and Jews.
. . ."not everyone in the Church is asleep. Here's one more example. Last month an estimated 1.5 million Polish Catholics gathered on Poland's borders to take part in an event called the Rosary at the Borders. Significantly, the event took place on October 7, the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto, one of the largest naval battles ever fought. Under the leadership of the Holy League, which had been organized by Pope Pius V, the Catholic Fleet destroyed the much larger Ottoman Fleet and saved Europe from an Islamic invasion."
. . ."So the bad news is that many in the Church have become facilitators of Islam. . .The antidote is to supply Catholics with solid information and solid arguments"
". . . the Church needs to recover its fighting spirit, and it also needs to recover the intellectual acumen that allowed previous popes, priests and lay Catholics to understand that Communism was an enemy; that Nazism was an enemy, and that militant Islam was an enemy and still is."
2. Carl Goldberg
". . . we've heard the expression "radical Islamic terrorism." That is a nonsense expression, because when you put an adjective like that in front of it, radical Islamic terrorism, it implies that there's such a thing as a non-radical Islamic terrorism.
. . .The president of Turkey, Erdogan, has famously said that "moderate Islam" is an ugly term and that there is no such thing as moderate or immoderate Islam, that Islam is Islam and that's it.
. . .And so, if it - radical Islam - doesn't exist, it can't be the problem, and if moderate Islam doesn't exist, it can't be the solution.
". . . And so, the major existential threat is, of course, the Stealth Jihad. It's going on right under our noses, so to say. It's sort of like termites invading a building. You may see a couple of termite tracks on the bottom but unless you know what you're looking for, you have no idea what's going on behind the walls, and one of these days the building is going to collapse if you don't take measures."
"So, who are we at war with? Well, it's not radical Islam. We are at war with Islam, Islam itself. Islam has been at war with us for 1,400 years. . .What are the consequences of not being at war with Islam? Well, then there's no justification for banning Muslim immigration. After all, Muslim immigrants are raised in a society and we can see what their society is like where they're coming from. They're bringing that with them. They're bringing with them the ideology of Islam that they were raised with. I don't think we want that here. Clearly, the values that they were raised with, and this doesn't mean 100 percent of them, but certainly the majority, they are raised with the values of Islam, which in many, many ways, contradict our values as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and all of our Western civilization."
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268906/islamic-threat-and-how-defeat-it-frontpa... William Kilpatrick MA, PhD is an American academic and author.
Carl Goldberg PhD is an historian