[Travis McGee]

I think some varitation of that is very likely. When the Islamikazis finally manage to destroy some major cultural artifacts (as they attempted to do to Notre Dame etc.) that may be the breaking point for millions of Euros.

At the same time of mass deportations of Muslims from the West, there will be a total massacre of unlucky Westerners trapped in Muslim lands.

After that, there will be a rigid partition, a quarantine, with no travel between the West and Islamic lands. Since we can never tell the Attas from the "moderate" Muslims they will ALL have to be kept out.

This "quarantine" will hurt but not destroy the Western economies, but it will prove fatal for the Muslim world, where without Western food and tech help they will starve and die by the millions.

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

Right now, Europe is almost totally dependent on Arab/Muslim oil. One of the factors that will push your scenario into happening (besides the actual destructive act or acts you mention) will be when Russian oil starts to make a real impact in Europe.

[Travis McGee]

Ping to #63. Any other prognostications? I'd like to hear your thumnails of how the next decade is going to evolve.

(Of course, "evolution" might not describe what is going to happen after we invade Iraq and / or suffer a WMD attack in the USA.)

[Savage Beast]

Post #63: That's a relief. I had envisioned a much worse scenario.