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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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1 posted on 09/04/2025 4:35:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

What kind of a fool would invite them in?


2 posted on 09/04/2025 4:35:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

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3 posted on 09/04/2025 4:41:14 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MtnClimber

There are no muslim geniuses, due to the inbreeding which wrecks havoc on their average IQ. When the time comes that they need to be dealt with, with the right resolve, the will, they could be taken out no problem.


4 posted on 09/04/2025 4:42:26 AM PDT by MarlonRando
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To: MtnClimber

There are no muslim geniuses, due to the inbreeding which wrecks havoc on their average IQ. When the time comes that they need to be dealt with, with the right resolve, the will, they could be taken out no problem.


5 posted on 09/04/2025 4:42:29 AM PDT by MarlonRando
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To: MtnClimber

a silly woman ...


6 posted on 09/04/2025 4:43:30 AM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: MtnClimber

The kind whose forebears that invented socialism and world wars.


7 posted on 09/04/2025 4:48:24 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: MtnClimber

> What kind of a fool would invite them in? <

It’s a combination of stupidity and cowardice. Better to see your country destroyed and your girls raped than be accused of Islamophobia.

And I suppose some coldly-calculating leftist politicians see it as a way to gain votes. That will work. But only until the Muslims decide they don’t need those politicians any more.


8 posted on 09/04/2025 4:50:26 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: MtnClimber

Lex Luthor asked Superman to give him Australia and now I think I know why. /s


9 posted on 09/04/2025 4:54:21 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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“What kind of a fool would invite them in?”

George W Bush for one.

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10 posted on 09/04/2025 4:59:34 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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I had a care giver for my mother , tell me to read the Koran and enlighten myself. I told her to gather her sh!t and get out of my house. How stupid are these barbarians ?


11 posted on 09/04/2025 5:07:02 AM PDT by spincaster (ifi)
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No, not Risk. The West is playing Russian Roulette. With a single shot handgun. And they're going first.

Allowing these savages into civilized countries is suicide. The EU first. America in the not-so-distant future.

12 posted on 09/04/2025 5:07:23 AM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist.)
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To: MtnClimber

White liberal women.


13 posted on 09/04/2025 5:09:55 AM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: LouAvul

Never play Russian Roulette with a Thompson Contender handgun!


14 posted on 09/04/2025 5:10:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber; All

BUMP


15 posted on 09/04/2025 5:21:44 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Unless my father was playing the game I almost always won the Game of Risk.
If my father played Risk with us, the first thing he did
was attack his son! Me.
He didn’t care about wining the game, he just wanted all the other players to have a chance.
No bragging, but my father was very concerned
if I was an opponent to anyone in any games.
Real life or board games.


16 posted on 09/04/2025 5:29:32 AM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: Lurker
George W Bush for one

Why? Just for Saudi Oil and Oil Money. One would have to be a craven idiot.

17 posted on 09/04/2025 5:30:12 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Lurker

And George H.W. Bush too!

And JFK-refugees from Yemen in the early 1960’s settling in the Dearborn, MI area.


18 posted on 09/04/2025 5:38:14 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: MtnClimber

quote “Freedom of speech, religion, and thought are core to Western civilization”

Actually, those are not core to fundamentalist Christianity either.

The issue isn’t Islam, it’s fundamentalist Islam. Watered down Islam is no more of threat to the world than watered down Christianity.


19 posted on 09/04/2025 5:48:04 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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George W Bush for one.

Pied Piper of modern traitors and poster child for the 'true pandemic'.

20 posted on 09/04/2025 5:56:28 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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