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The atrocities in Orlando, Nice and in Normandy keep a burning question alive: will Muslims ever integrate successfully into Western societies? If you listen to Donald Trump or Marie Le Pen, the answer is no. Their sympathisers seem to believe that Muslims will always be a dangerous cyst within the secularised West.
There is another possibility, though. Why don’t Christians aspire to convert Muslims to their own faith? The novelist Michel Houellebecq created a stir with his most recent novel Submission(Soumission in French) which imagines France governed by an Islamic party in 2022. The central character, a professor of literature, decides to convert to Islam because he can get a secure job and multiple wives.
But why is this scenario more plausible than the gradual conversion of Muslims?
This is not as absurd as it sounds. There have been a number of reports from Europe of conversions to Christianity among Muslim refugees:
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Michael Cook is editor of MercatorNet.
The atrocities in Orlando, Nice and in Normandy keep a burning question alive: will Muslims ever integrate successfully into Western societies? If you listen to Donald Trump or Marie Le Pen, the answer is no. Their sympathisers seem to believe that Muslims will always be a dangerous cyst within the secularised West.
There is another possibility, though. Why don’t Christians aspire to convert Muslims to their own faith? The novelist Michel Houellebecq created a stir with his most recent novel Submission(Soumission in French) which imagines France governed by an Islamic party in 2022. The central character, a professor of literature, decides to convert to Islam because he can get a secure job and multiple wives.
But why is this scenario more plausible than the gradual conversion of Muslims?
This is not as absurd as it sounds. There have been a number of reports from Europe of conversions to Christianity among Muslim refugees:
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