The Coming World War

Many people will disagree with the assertion made by the title. War they will say is not inevitable. Unfortunately they are not looking at the facts…or at least they are not looking at the history.

1400 years ago an Islamic Empire established itself, sweeping across North Africa and into Spain and even Southern France before finally being stopped by the Franks. This clash between Islam and Western Civilization (or as some would refer to it a clash between Islam and Christendom) has not ceased since that day. Muslim incursions into Europe occurred again and again over the course of the millennium and a half that followed, and yes to be fair their were plenty of western incursion into the middle east.

This war has been ongoing and despite what some people might believe did not cease with the collapse and break up of the Ottoman empire following World War I. Contrary to popular belief the break up of the Islamic Empire did not in fact put an end to Imperial Islamic aspirations. Gahdafi, Ayatollah Khomeni, Saddam Hussein and others have all hinted at if not openly declared their intention to:

A. Establish an Islamic Empire. B. Spread that Empire to every corner of the globe.

The evidence out there is overwhelming. Just as a single example; as late as 1995 a council of more than 80 Islamic Nations gather to discuss the Islamic Conquest of Africa. Their stated objective was the total conquest of African as an Islamic continent. With Arabic as the official Language and Islam as the official religion. This council is not an anomaly neither in recent history nor in ancient history.

Since its conception Islam has attempted to spread its religion (by flame and by sword) to every corner of the globe. It is an imperative of the religion. I grow tired of people ignorant of the truth trying to tell me that Islam is a religion of Peace. I am particularly tired of people who have never read the Quran (Koran) telling me that it is a religion of peace. It is not. Their 1400 year old history of trying to conquer and convert the entire globe is proof of that. Their murderous and ceaseless attacks against western civilization are further evidence of that.

They claim that the West (lead by America) practices hegemony. That is actually very true. The west has practiced hegemony against the Islamic world for more that 1400 years. What else can you call it when for fourteen hundred years western civilization has fought off invasion after invasion. Now the west tries desperately to prevent the recreation of an Islamic Empire. Other forces at work in the Middle East try desperately to overcome this obstacle.

Why is war inevitable? For the same reason war was inevitable in Europe 1938. Because a world wanted to insist that peace was possible despite every peace of evidence that it was not. State Department type diplomats convinced their leadership that Hitler and Germany could be dealt with peacefully. That war could be averted. That violence was not necessary. What they got a war that brought them to their knees and almost destroyed them.

Today that same blindness, that same peace at all costs attitude pervades the rest of the world. Just as in 1938 the rest of the world wanted to stick its collective head in the sand and pretend that Germany was not really a threat…so to today is our world full of people who wish to stick our collective heads in the sand. We appease and prevaricate and in the end we give them time. Time to build their arsenals of weapons of mass destruction. All the while thinking that somehow we can convince these people not to use them. Somehow we can convince these people who have not ceased fighting us for fourteen hundred years to suddenly make nice. Somehow, we can convince these people whose only goal and objective is our destruction that we can live peacefully even though their very religion tells them that they must conquer us. (and don’t tell that it doesn’t because 1400 years of Islamic Conquest proves you wrong)

That is why War is inevitable. Because eventually they will have their weapons. And just as we fail to understand them and the reasons why the MUST conquer us…they too in their ignorance of us and our customs will fail to realize why they will never succeed in conquering us. That we would never let them and they will never have the power to succeed. Aided by their cultural failings that tell them that seeking peace and conciliation are weaknesses rather than a moral imperative they will see us as weak because we fail to do what we should which is ACT…and in the end that failure will cause a worse war.

Do not get me wrong. I do not intend to paint a doom and gloom picture and the destruction of the world. They are not powerful enough to defeat us, nor are they patient enough to wait until they are strong enough, before they strike. And in the end they do not understand us enough to know that they would be well advised not to. Such a war would only have one possible outcome. Their utter annihilation. It saddens me, and angers me some as well, that so many will be lost that do not need to be if we would only accept what is and what must be and strike now while we can and not wait until the inevitable explosion that is to come.

I like your summary. Here's a little research that you inspired:

Most of the history of warfare for the last 1400 years is the history of Islam and their war against the rest of the world.

I have attempted to locate information on conflicts between Islam and other cultures. I have ignored internal issues within each culture, such as "sultan X dies and is replaced by sultan Y."

	Islam against the world	West against Islam	Other
610 AD	Birth of Islam
629	Slaughter of Jews in Medina
630	Conquest of Makkah (Mecca)
632	Death of Muhammed
633	Conquest of Arab Peninsula
637	Conquest of Jeruselam
642	Conquest of Egypt
647	Conquest of North Africa
711	Conquest of Spain
716	Invasion of Constantinople
725	Muslims occupy Nimes, France
732	Battle of Tours
792	Invasion of South France
1095		First Crusade
1099		Crusaders recapture Jerusalem
1174	Salah ud Din annexes Syria
1187	Salah ud Din wrests Jerusalem from the Christians	Third crusade.
1194	Occupation of Delhi by the Muslims.
1199	Conquest of Northern India and Bengal by the Ghurids.
1245	The Muslims reconquer Jerusalem.
1258			Mongols sack Baghdad - Mongol II-Khans establish their rule in Iran and Iraq
1266		The eighth crusade. The crusaders invade Tunisia. Failure of the crusade.	Death of Berek Khan the first ruler of the Golden Horde to be converted to Islam.
1267	First Muslim state in Indonesia.
1299			Mongols invade Syria.
1365	In the Ottoman Turks empire, The Turks defeat the Christians at the battle of Matiza, the Byzantine ruler becomes a vassal of the Turks.
1371	In the Ottoman Turks empire, Invasion of Bulgaria, Bulgarian territory upto the Balkans annexed by the Turks.
1456	In the Ottoman Turks empire, Annexation of Serbia.
1461	In the Ottoman Turks empire, Annexation of Bosnia and Herzogovina.
1462	In the Ottoman Turks empire, Annexation of Albania.
1473	In the Ottoman Turks empire, War against Persia; Persians defeated.
1475	In the Ottoman Turks empire, Annexation of Crimea. War against Venice. Tukey became the master of the Aegean Sea.
1499	In the Ottoman Turks empire, The Turks defeated the Venetian fleet in the battle of Lepanto.
1507		The Portuguese under d'Albuquerque establish strongholds in the Persian Gulf.
1511		D'Albuquerque conquers Malacca from the Muslims.
1517	The Ottoman Sultan Selim Yavuz ("the Grim") defeats the Mamluks and conquers Egypt.
1526	The Battle of Panipat in India, and the Moghul conquest; Babur makes his capital at Delhi and Agra.
1528	The Ottomans take Buda in Hungary.
1529	Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna.
1571		The Ottomans are defeated at the naval Battle of Lepanto, and their dominance in the Mediterranean is brought to a close.
1603	Persia occupies Tabriz, Mesopotamia. Mosul and Diyarbekr
1683	The Turks lift the siege of Vienna and retreat. Kara Mustafa the Grand Wazir executed for the failure of the expedition.
1711	War between Turkey and Russia. Russia defeated at the battle of Pruth.
1718		In the war against Austria, Turkey suffers defeat. By the treaty of Passarowich Turkey loses Hungary.
1811		British occupied Indonesia.
1814		Iran executed treaty of alliance with the British known as Definitive Treaty.
1830		French forces landed near Algiers and occupied Algeria ending 313 years rule of Turks.
1840		Quadruple Alliance by the European powers to force Egypt to relinquish Syria.
1857		British captured Delhi and eliminated Mughal rule in India after 332 years. Last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled to Rangoon in Burma. This was also the end of 1000 years of Muslim rule over India.
1879		Treaty of Berlin. Turkey lost 4/5 th of its territory in Europe.
1881		France invaded Tunisia and the Bey acknowledged supremacy of France as a result of the treaty of Bardo.
1882		Egypt came under British military occupation.
1901		French forces occupy Morocco.
1914			World War I.
1916			Arab revolt against Ottoman (Turkish) rule. Lawrence of Arabia leads attacks on the Hijaz Railway.
1918			Armistice signed with Ottomans on October 30
1918			World War I ends on November 11
1918			Syria and Damascus become a French protectorate
1928	Hasan al-Banna founds the Muslim Brotherhood
1932			Iraq granted independence by League of Nations
1936			Increased Jewish immigration provokes widespread Arab-Jewish fighting in Palestine
1939			World War II
1941		British and Russian forces invade Iran and Reza Shah is forced to abdicate in favor of his son Mohammad Reza Shah in Iran
1943			Beginning of Zionist terrorist campaign in Palestine
1945			End of World War II
1946			Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria are granted independence from Britain and France
1947	Creation of Pakistan from Muslim Majority area in India
1948			Creation of state of Israel. Arab armies suffer defeat in war with Israel

This is mostly from a brief chronology of Muslim history http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/history/chronology/

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