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The Winter of
ISLAM
and the Spring to Come INTRODUCTION
A call to all people
of conscience...
W hat people come across fre-
quently, they tend to even-
tually grow used to. This
familiarity can so develop over time that
things which elicit violent surprise or
protest when first witnessed become rou-
tine matters just a short while later.
The wars and conflicts taking place in
our world are a case in point. When a coun-
try is first occupied and a slaughter or
genocide first begins, this can lead to vio-
lent protests worldwide. Let us, for in-
stance, consider the first days of the
Bosnian conflict, or Chechnya, or
Palestine… The image of a Palestinian child
on his father's lap who will be a target for
the bullets of Israeli soldiers, Chechen ba-
bies murdered in their nappies, women, the
