Posted on 12/12/2014 10:45:52 PM PST by Steelfish
There was a monotheistic religion that was widespread throughout the Middle East prior to the rise of Islam, Zoroastrianism. It is widely believed that this was the religion of the Magi, the three wise men who came to the birthplace of Jesus, as recorded in the New Testament.
The Zoroastrians were ruthlessly exterminated throughout Persia and most of the rest of the Middle East, with only small remnants now surviving in India, to where they fled. Probably this was the basis of the practice of Islam at one time, but since the eradication of the true religion of peace, most of the teachings of that religion were systematically dropped, and only that epistle of a sun-crazed old schizophrenic remained, as the lone authority of rationalization for perversion and bloodthirsty subjugation of infidels.
The Zoroastrians left their imprint on the Persian converts to Islam, however, in the constructions that the Shi’ite Muslims have applied to the Koran, which differ in many ways from the interpretations of the Arabic branch, the Sunni, and this has led to long and bloody warfare between the two apparently irreconcilable factions. And as long as they are fighting each other, they are not fighting us.
Mutual Assured Destruction. That has such a satisfying and tantalizing ring to it.
Possible Christmas book “The Revenge of Geography” by Kaplan. It was at my library.
ø approves.
I’ll look for it at my library. Kaplan is pretty good.
Why is nobody talking about the muslim slave trade? Obama/Sharpton, where are you when you are needed?
He gets slammed as a neo-con/ the type that got us into Iraq.
In the book he admits he was wrong about going into Iraq...But this is far from what the book is about. Its about how geography affects geo-politics, wars, the rise and fall of human societies...etc
I’ve read other stuff by Kaplan. He’s not far from Diamond’s “Guns, Germs and Steel” as a geographical determinist.
I agree that geography is critical, but so are religion, culture, and ethnographic factors.
Why do these “staffers” get to remain anonymous? Let’s have their names and contact points. They should get contacted.
geographical determinist.... In this book he covers a few authors-strategists who differ in the degree of determinism in their theories. Some are only 50% so. But those who ignore geography will be screwed
High level congressional staffers can snag high paying lobbyist jobs in DC. Staffers rule many Congressional and Senatorial offices. A senile fool like Nancy Pelosi.....you better believe her chief of staff does all the heavy lifting while Nancy is out schmoozing lobbyists, race hustlers, La Raza and communists
Waiting to hear outcries from the NAG-HAGs and other feminazi groups, along with the UN..........crickets.......
Sometimes I try to be overly glib and say
“Geography plus ethnography equals history.”
Of course, geography, at its roots, helps to determine ethnography. But later on, mass migrations etc overwhelm geography, but geography still has a vote, so to speak.
If people only knew what went into making political sausages.
Can you have sex with non-Muslim farm animals? Yes.
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