The Burqa and the Miniskirt

About the Book

Iran and the Muslim countries where the irrational burqa is more popular today than one or two generations ago count more politically and economically than few years ago. The countries where the miniskirt and more relaxed moral attitudes have been more popular count always less in the world scene. Third world countries with high birth rates have progressed relatively more than Western countries with lower birthrates. When there was the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century with great progress and Britain started to dominate the seas, the birth rates were very high. Since independence in 1947, the population of India has increased fourfold and progressed a lot. Could you imagine Britain or any other European country starting to conquer the world again? The other way out seems more probable. With young people from developing countries that dare attack America and the Western countries in their own territories.

About the Author

Prof. Angelo Bertolo was born in 1939 in the northeastern region of Italy, Friuli, attending classical studies and getting degrees from the Catholic University of Milan and the University of Toronto. His main interests have been in history from a very comprehensive point of view: classical and European history first of all, but also the Asian civilizations, India in particular, the Semitic peoples of the Bible, and ancient peoples as per archaeological studies. He likes to compare happenings and situations from the past and the present, as did Machiavelli, and to find patterns in the evolution of societies in the wake of G. B. Vico and Charles Darwin.