Why Islam is my choice — Page 110
110 Christian society can slowly evolve, based on Christian principles into one that eliminates these kind of barriers in society that you had to go through and experience? Could they come back if we had, an ultra-nationalist leader in the country for example, or some other circumstances like this? R: From the Christian belief? W: In a society where predominantly Christians live? R: The things I faced could be corrected through Christianity? I don’t know, I don’t think so. W: Could they be corrected and could they seriously come back? R: Yes, it could, because, what happened was that they cut the state from the religion. So religions don’t have the power that they used to. Christianity used to have a great deal of power. At one time the Pope had his own army. If you put the power back in the hands of the Church, the power is in the judicial system and the political system, not in the Church. The Church is only a place where people go and pray now—but the Church used to be calling the shots in the Christian Culture. If you bring that force back into play, you will have the same problems again, because Christianity does not deal with those problems, and it was never meant to deal with those problems, and it never did deal with those problems. They just let them go until the politicians found political solutions for those problems. And politics, as you know, only works under pressure, and it was the pressure of the Civil Rights Movement that created the Civil Rights legislation, or else we wouldn’t have had that, because in 1926 the Ku Klux Klan was so strong in America that they publicly paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D. C. When World War II ended, and you had a strong communist force in the world, then the United States and the western countries, they had to look at their racial policies because they were getting pressure from Civil Rights groups