Our Occident: The lights are still on in the west

The eastern border of the West can still be drawn today along the easternmost Gothic cathedrals.

Behind it began the similarly old Byzantine Empire of Orthodox and Oriental Christianity in the circle from Russia to the Balkans and Greece, Syria, Palestine and Iraq to Egypt.

That was the Orient, which in large parts became and remained Muslim as early as the 7th century.

At the beginning of the third millennium, this Orient found itself in the greatest crisis in its history before our eyes, together with Islam.