Normally quoting oneself is a bad idea. An excellent case in point is former Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin. Twice he said that “peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family, it is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more.”

The first occasion was in Oslo on 10 December 1978 when he accepted the Nobel Prize for Peace. The second was in Washington on 26 March 1979 when he signed the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. The first time he was going through what he himself used to call one of his “Shakespearean Moments.” The second, though identical, was pure kitsch.

I cannot compete with Begin as an orator. Nevertheless, given what has happened in France last week, I feel justified in quoting form my best-known work, The Transformation of War (1991). Not because I like my own voice; normally I do not care to look at my published books. But because the following passage still provides the best description of what I consider the future is going to be like.

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“From the vantage point of the present, there appears every prospect that religious attitudes, beliefs, and fanaticisms will play a larger role in the motivation of armed conflict than it has, in the West at any rate, for the last 300 years. Already as these lines are being written the fastest growing religion in the world is Islam. While there are many reasons for this, perhaps it would not be so far-fetched to say that this very militancy is one factor behind its spread. By this I do not merely mean to say that Islam seeks to achieve is aims by fighting; rather, that people in many parts of the world—including downtrodden groups in the developed world—are finding Islam attractive precisely because it is prepared to fight…

If the growing militancy of one religion continues, it almost certainly will compel others to follow suit. People will be driven to defend their ideals and way of life, and their physical existence, and this they will be able to do only under the banner of some great and powerful idea. That idea may be secular by origin; however, the very fact that it is fought for will cause it to acquire religious overtones and be adhered to with something like religious fervor. Thus Muhammad’s recent revival may yet bring on that of the Christian Lord, and He will not be the Lord of love but that of battles.”

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