My controversial view on why Shariah is succeeding in the West -- From ACT! for America--Houston: [New post] Western Sharia
The following is a possibly controversial observation and assessment I've made: One of the reasons Islam is able to make the headway it has made is the relative lack of outward cultural impact the Christian religion can make. For most Christians, there are few if any MANDATORY--key word--practices or traits. No required ways of dressing, no specifically scheduled daily rituals, few annual observances (and those really not be "mandatory"), and honestly, no sense of enforcement of what little cultural impact it can make (compare Romans 14's rather tolerant attitude toward outward, physical matters of culture). The result is a sort of social and cultural vacuum in Christian-predominate societies. Islam, on the other hand, has many such mandatory or nearly-mandatory traits to influence culture. These stand well in occupying the above-described vacuum in Christian-predominate societies, while both our predominate religiosity in the West nor our se...