[bubman]

The great dilemma with the muslim world is that Islam and the future are irreconcilable. There is no place for it in the future thus it's retrograde state. Muslims are IMHO at war with the future and Islam cannot compete and hold firm on its philosophical or theological underpinnings. It is ill-prepared to answer the vexing questions individuals seek to in the modern world. Unlike Christianity, Islam is a cult with layers of purity. One more pure and truer to the teachings of Mohammed than those that precede it, If you do not measure up to their standards of Islam, you are in effect an apostate and thus deserve death. ISIS are just the latest manifestation of that.

Or....it couple be a secret cabal of Jews led by Mossad and funded by Soros and the New World Order!!!!!

[PIF]

You are likely correct, but as far as the future is concerned it depends on one’s preconception of what ‘future’ is like.

Is the future one that progresses humanity up the technological and philosophical chain? Or is that future on in which people worldwide live in bleak furniture less, decoration less hovels, with nothing for men to read but the koran, and nothing at all for women to read?

And if you imagine the Sunni vision (typified by ISIS) of the future retrograde and bleak, just glance at the Shiia vision: a future in which all of humanity is brought to Paradise through war and murder (human extinction) as the Shiia Twelvers desire?

Of course, the first thing which must happen is a means to achieve that end - thus Iran’s need for nukes. Using the nukes would spill enough blood to bring the 12th Imam out of the well he has lived in for the past 600 years and lead the process of bringing all of humanity to Paradise, aka extinction.

I’m sure you are thrilled to know that Obizmal and Moo Cow, under the leadership of VJ - who is following her instructions from the Iranian mullahs - are working feverishly to bring about this last result.