Hisham Melhem, the Washington bureau chief of Al-Arabiya, makes a powerful case for the self-evident, that Arab civilization has broken down. He is, understandably, unable to find a single, overarching explanation for this. Here's a snapshot:
"Is it any surprise that, like the vermin that take over a ruined city, the heirs to this self-destroyed civilization should be the nihilistic thugs of the Islamic State? And that there is no one else who can clean up the vast mess we Arabs have made of our world but the Americans and Western countries?
"No one paradigm or one theory can explain what went wrong in the Arab world in the last century."
Powerful stuff and you can read the whole thing here (via Breitbart).
But, in deference to author, could it be that the answer to his question lies within Islam itself?
Just a thought.
God bless,
LSP
