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The West is playing an international game of RISK with the Muslim world
American Thinker ^ | 4 Sep, 2025 | Vince Coyner

Posted on 09/04/2025 4:35:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Unfortunately for the West, the Muslim world understands the game’s optimal strategy, while the West is barely showing up.

In the board game RISK, the goal is world domination. You achieve that by battling other players within and across continents. The best strategy is to take and hold Australia. Once secured, you can build up your troops while defending the single point of access to keep your opponents at bay, then attack in a methodical style and slowly expand.

This strategy doesn’t always work, but the notion of finding an easily defendable base where you can husband resources and use it as a launching pad to attack others is sound.

We’re actually seeing that strategy play itself in real-life competition that is anything but a game. Of course, I’m talking about Islam.

SNIP

Not that the Muslim world was monolithic, because it wasn’t. There were often competing caliphates and competition within caliphates, but the Islamic world never experienced anything resembling the kind of balkanization that characterized Christian Europe for most of its post-Roman history. Nor was Europe the only area that Islam sought to conquer, for at times it controlled all of India and much of Western China, stretching south to Indonesia.

Today, we live in a different world where caliphates in the traditional sense no longer exist. Instead of having one or multiple caliphates controlling large empires of Muslim lands, today there are over 50 countries where Muslims rule.

But just because we live in a different world doesn’t mean we’re living in a different world. Just as Muhammad and his successors sought to expand Islam to the ends of the earth, today we have a similar push, albeit from a far more grassroots source.

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To: Lurker

but all women in fundamental Christianity (like Eastern Orthodox) are required to cover their heads in church.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not defending Islam. All I am saying is the true enemy is fundamentalist Islam.


41 posted on 09/04/2025 11:00:47 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: bert

It’s not Darwinian when civilized nations give free benefits to savages with low IQs who don’t even have to work. In a normal Darwinian battle the people with higher IQs and ability to assemble large, fierce armies could easily wipe on the idiots that they are importing. This is civilizational suicide by deranged leftist leaders who are under the spell of delusions about all societies being equal.


42 posted on 09/04/2025 11:10:30 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“All I am saying is the true enemy is fundamentalist .”

There’s no such thing as “moderate islam”. It’s a fiction.

L


43 posted on 09/04/2025 11:17:18 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: WashingtonSource

What was isn’t. The invasion will bee decided by the genetically stronger race.

The Europe that was is not the Europe that is


44 posted on 09/04/2025 12:10:19 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: Lurker

Moderate Islam would be like... a teenage child of a 2nd-generation muslim immigrant who’s family doesn’t go to the mosque or pray ever, but still calls themselves Muslim because their grandparents were.


45 posted on 09/04/2025 12:12:38 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“ Moderate Islam would be like... a teenage child of a 2nd-generation muslim immigrant who’s family doesn’t go to the mosque or pray ever…”

Do some research. Those are the very worst ones.

L


46 posted on 09/04/2025 12:28:51 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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