[FBD]

"Another reason [for Islamic fanatical appeal]
9) Poor peoples tend to often have a serious problem with covetousness and greed.
Especially angry, abused poor people."

But this religion doesn't just appeal to the poor, or the ignorant. Consider that one of the most radical is a multi-millionaire, and there are even characters with Ph'D's that advocate violence.

Many wealthy Saudi Muslims are educated at Harvard, so there are some other reasons, as well to the Islamic-cult appeal. The answer is similar to the Utopia that Communists once envisioned, only this has religion attached to it.

I also believe you are going to see a lot of Leftists hop on the Islamic bandwagon, just like they did with EST, Transcendental Meditation, etc. Many Leftists love flirting with cults.
As an example; we had the Rajneeshspuram cult out here in Elgin, Oregon. Rich liberals gave up all their worldly posessions, meanwhile their Bagwhan leader had 50 Rolls Royces. In the end they tried to take over the town of Elgin, by busing in followers and registering them to vote. Then they tried to poison the town by dumping poison in the water system, and they also poisoned food at a resteraunt buffet.
Any of this sound like something Islamo-terrorists might do? Yup.

Btw, have any of you read Dr. Ali Sina's story? It's powerful.

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"Why I left Islam", by Dr. Ali Sina

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Here's a snippet:
"Nothing is more difficult to get rid of than religion. This is truly the most potent narcotic if it is administered to a person from childhood. Yet as intelligent people it was not possible for these great minds to accept the Quran for its face value. Therefore they tried to find esoteric meanings in meaningless verses of the Quran and it was they who gave birth to a new religion that had nothing to do with what was taught by Muhammad. Yet this religion was palatable to those with brains."

"Thus we have two Islams. One that makes strives to attribute mystical significance and otherworldly meanings to the inane teachings of the Quran, as is professed by Sufis, and the other that rejects any interpretation of these verses beyond their literal meanings, as is practiced by the majority of Muslims with their hub in Saudi Arabia among the Wahhabis. And of course there is a myriad of sects that go in between these two extremes, each interpreting the Quran according to their own whims and caprices, each calling others mortad or heretics and constantly making war among themselves to impose their own "right" version of the pure Islam on others."

"However, the real Islam is not what its philosophers and mystics have inferred but what is in the Quran and that is the Islam of the fundamentalist and the terrorist."- Dr. Ali Sina...an EX-Muslim.

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[Mudboy Slim]

"Many Leftists love flirting with cults."

Let's be FRank...modern Lib'ralism is becoming a cult in and of itself...MUD

[carton253]

Please take me off your ping list. Thank you.

[Happy2BMe]

Jihad came on 9/11 - Afghans and Iraq were conquered soon after - BUMP.

[carton253]

"However, the real Islam is not what its philosophers and mystics have inferred but what is in the Quran and that is the Islam of the fundamentalist and the terrorist."-

Dr. Ali Sina is absolutely correct...

Islam was created to be the army of God, the army of Alalh. Every single Muslim is a soldier in this army. Every single Muslim that dies in fighting for the spread of Islam is a martyr no matter how he dies, because It's not a war that stops. This war is there because it was created by Allah. Islam must be the ruler. This a war that will not end.

Now the two civilizations are not Islam and Christianity. It is Islam versus everyone else.

Peace in Islam can exist only within the Islamic world; peace can only be between Muslim and Muslim. To those who are not Muslim, there in only one solution - either domination or a cease-fire until the Muslim can grow strong enough to dominate.

[Quix]

I can agree with that.

I think the wealthy envision a grand Moslem conquest of the globe with them among the elite at the top.

Shrillery is not the only one addicted to power mongering. Certainly the religious aspect adds umph to it.