Posted on 08/05/2002 10:12:24 AM PDT by Prysson
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 dont tell that it doesnt 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.
People think that it is hard to do but it is not. Think about it:
Walk a homicide bomber onto the subway of NY City and blow it. How many will ride the sub tomorrow? Put a homicide bomber to just WALK UP to various terminals, outside with the crowds, just inside the terminals where security is not looking yet, and blow it. How many people will show up tomorrow if say they blew one at the same time at JFK, Dulles, Atlanta, O'Hare, LAX, SF, etc. It is not that hard to do. Then have them walk into a couple of the larger malls of America, like the one in Minnesota and simply set it off. Who goes to the malls tomorrow? NO ONE! Or, set on off on the ferries in NY, SF or the large ones on Puget Sound here in Seattle. The WA state ferries carry over 25,000 commuters each day. Blow one bomb on one of the larger vessels and the entire system shuts down. Blow a couple in cars on some of the larger bridges, Brooklyn, Golden Gate, etc, and see how many people will want to cross tomorrow.
It is all about causing terror. It is about damaging our economy. If they have the bombers in place and have the bombs, they will do this and more and they WILL use them. They could practically shut the country down with a couple of days or waves of bombings. IT IS NOT THAT HARD TO DO. And, they have the experience with this stuff. It is their MAIN weapon to use against us. They have no navy, no real army, no air force in which to use to hit us. So, they use bodies packed with bombs.
Russia has had their fill of the peaceful Islamics for a very long time, imagine they in league with the Chinese and Indians. The Chinese in particular would show them no mercy.
All the more reason why President Bush is being careful of supporting Israel 100%, and not doing anything about Hamas, even though they are killing Americans.
This points to the West's main problem. We have become, by and large, practical atheists. Liberalism is akin to color-blindness in that it is dead to the spiritual dimension in life.
Red
We have all the bombs! H-bombs and A-bombs.
Yours,
aSkeptic
A. Establish an Islamic Empire. B. Spread that Empire to every corner of the globe.
That's not a very impressive list of Islamic conquerors. Khomeini died in 1989 and his successors have domestic problems controlling fed up Iranians. Saddam is an enemy of the Islamists: he gassed thousands of them (when he was still one of "our" dictators). Gaddafi's peculiar "little green" philosophy has little influence beyond Libya.
By the way, so what if more of Africa goes over to Islam? That continent is a mess and Islam's strict discipline seems tailor-made for imposing law and order on unruly 3rd world hell-holes.
By "high spots" I would point to Venice, Ummayad Spain, Ireland, Cornwall, Brittany and Byzantium off and on.
The petty kingdoms and tribal alliances in that vast territory we now call France and Germany serve more as a basis for genealogies for descendants of the titled nobles than they do as something we want to point to as constituting high culture and civilization.
The supposed "invasion" Charles Martel "turned back" was very little more than an attempt by the Governor of Spain to protect an existing Moslem community across the Pyranees from tribal raiders and bandits. He apparantly underestimated how many of them there were.
Someday folks of predominantly Western European ancestry will come to grips with the Dark Ages and recognize that it was a terrible forge filled with disease and deprivation, but one which also prepared them for the role as world organizer. We will know that day has arrived when the Franks are "dethroned". In reality they were as important and meaningful to the march of progress as are those rebel elements of the Congolese Army today.
Did you ever check out this guy's lifestyle? A chick here, a concubine there, a wife in this town, and another one there; stories of casual murder; laying waste entire counties for no reason at all; etc.
Even though he was "one of their boys", I noticed the Catholic Encyclopedia does not treat Chucky-babe kindly. In contrast, their references to his Moslem opponent are proper and respectful. Must be a reason, eh?!
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