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To: robowombat

The Koran contains what appears to be very effective propaganda that praises the “virtues” of Islam, while appealing to a very dark side of the human psyche.

Like all Socialist doctrines, this ideology makes promises it cannot keep, short of turning to taking goods and services by treachery or outright theft of intellectual property, and using this knowledge to hamper and undermine established capitalistic economies.

Take the desires of an almost universal human mindset, to get a great deal for very little effort, or even something for nothing in return, and you have the seeds of a military dictatorship, which is the basic requirement of every command-and-control theory of government ever contrived.

This involves the establishment of a superior ruling class, and a large number of subservient and obedient servants, slaves if you will, to carry out the wishes of the ruling clique. Make some vague promises to the large class of subservient individuals, that they too can get into the ranks of the ruling clique, and they will have some members who will move mountains and swim oceans to gain those ends, though they may perish is fearsome numbers to achieve that objective. If the promises can be made for some kind of paradise that waits even if the individual dies in the attempt, it is enough to sway minds that are frankly rather limited in imagination otherwise.


12 posted on 06/02/2019 3:21:27 PM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between real life and fiction? Fiction has to make sense and follow some logic.)
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To: alloysteel
Interesting. The Ottoman Empire seemed unstoppable until it encountered large enough foes that stopped the empires expansion both east (Abbasid Persia) and west. The Ottoman state was based on permanent growth by rewarding the military cast with conquered lands and the government with constantly increasing revenue. When expansion stopped the empire began to crumble. It took several centuries but by 1850 the Ottoman state was ‘the sick man of Europe’.
42 posted on 06/02/2019 5:06:36 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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