Posted on 11/07/2011 6:51:41 PM PST by Olog-hai
The New York Times has run an op-ed entitled, ‘The Overblown Islamist Threat.’ Big surprise: There’s no Islamist threat! They’re all moderates! Just like in 1979 Iran or in Turkey more recently. Do you think we might see an oped in The New York Times entitled, ‘The Islamist Threat is Very Real?’ Of course not. But the real surprise is the author’s identity. It’s former Jordanian foreign minister Marwan Muasher. Huh? Jordan’s policy on Islamism has been based precisely on the idea that letting them take power would be the end of the regime and a disaster for the country. …
Like George Costanza in Seinfeld, everything Muasher says in the article is the opposite of reality. The Islamist victory in Tunisia, he writes, has “reinforced the conventional wisdom that Islamists will be the biggest beneficiaries of the Arab Spring.” (Really? This is the conventional wisdom?) But not to worry, he continues, because the “Islamist parties will, however, become more moderate if they are included in government.” …
There’s not much transparency in the Muslim-majority world, but one thing is definitely transparent: the inaccurate and illogical nature of what we’re told about those countries. Proving this is going to require whole countries to be subjected to horrible dictatorships for years (Iran is at one-third of a century and counting), the crushing of women’s rights, the setting back of regional development by decades and bloody wars in which tens of thousands will die.
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If Islam were so swell, God would not have sent Christ Jesus, nor would he have He been judged on the Cross, nor would he have been resurrected.
Given time to incubate, Islam will spread as a contagion of plague-like proportions.
Islam popped up six centuries after Jesus. Mohammed mixed Arab paganism, some Rabbinic Judaism and elements of Gnostic “Christianity” together and turned that all into Islam. The concept of “jihad” was the only way he could make Islam spread.
If Islam were so swell, God would not have sent Christ Jesus, nor would he have He been judged on the Cross, nor would he have been resurrected
Considering the Bible says there is nothing new under the sun, you are probably right. Islam is, most likely, just a mix of different false religions, all put into one.
I suspect Europe would be longing for a new Charles Martel, but lacking one would have to try a nuclear exchange to have a hope of survival.
How about we try it?
No; that’s what they would want us to do. Another “beneficial crisis” that would allow the elites to form their coveted EU military. They’ve already got the Muslims in their sights besides.
>>”former Jordanian foreign minister Marwan Muasher”<<
Maybe why he is “former” Jordanian FM.
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