We heard a country, while trying to pass a law banning women from wearing the Islamic veil, someone proposes to introduce Islam as a school subject. Maybe it's just a provocation, maybe not. Maybe it's not even rehash the case of the millennial clash of power, culture, with two different visions of man and society between Christianity and Islam. Yet, among the neighboring civilization with Islam, Christianity was the only universal in the sense that unlike other religions in India or China, was designed to convert all of humanity. Islam, for its part, focused heavily on Islamic law, prescribed from ancient times among the principal duties of the community to lead the jihad, or holy war, against infidels. Inevitable that Christianity and Islam entered in competition for open combat, giving himself another infidel. After the death of Muhammad, Islam was the new world religion that sought to supplant Christianity and other religions and advancing to the conquest of the world. For almost a thousand years, from the first landing of the Moors in Spain turkish siege of Vienna, Europe was under constant threat from Islam twofold: invasion and conquest and conversion, and then assimilation. From here taken to start the study of Arabic in Europe, so you can read the Koran and other texts with the Muslims' intention of saving souls from one Christian conversion possible and hoping to convert Muslims to Christianity. He followed the Christian counter-offensive and the period of the Crusades. After centuries of struggle, with the end of the Ottoman Empire and especially the twenties of the last century, the triumph of Christianity over Islam seemed final. Over the decades, began a rapid modernization of the Arab countries and a degree of Westernization of the costumes which were raised against the extremist fringe groups. Sobering that, despite some radical Muslim waste European civilization, there is a massive Muslim migration to the West. Many Muslims living in Italy continue to be rooted to its origins and are not intended to take Western ways. Many Arab women also we continue to wear the veil. While Islam calls on Catholics not to post the crucifix in schools, the other in Italy claims that Arab women wear the burqa. The problem is not so much a political one. The point is another. Christianity, or rather the West, can really be considered safe from new waves of jihad? Which face is hidden behind a burqa? Maybe just another feeble attempt at revenge on Christianity, Islam.
Angela Francesca D'Atri
