Posted on 03/04/2006 2:37:52 PM PST by freedom44
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Tehran, Iran, Mar. 04 – A representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran University declared on Friday that Islam must “conquer the world” by defeating the West.
Hojjatol-Islam Alireza Panahyan, who was delivering the pre-sermon speech at this week’s Friday prayers in the Iranian capital, said that the West was trying to put fear into the hearts of Muslims through “torture and nuclear weapons”.
“We intend to conquer the world without [nuclear] weapons. Such weapons are not needed to set the stage for the return of the [Shiite messiah] Mahdi”, Panahyan said.
He called on Muslims to overcome their fear of the West’s might.
“If you do not fear and take a stance, they will not be able to say anything and will try not to get into a fight with you, because they know that they will lose”, he said.
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No, It's the perversion of Islam that is dangerous. Jehadists are to be hunted and killed. Their organizations smashed.
Islam's adherents however, will have to be brought into modernity peacefully - through social and political change, and through pressure from the rest of the civilized world.
If there is ever going to be a chance for relative peace in the world, we're going to have to tame the natives, so to speak. Like it or not.
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"No, It's the perversion of Islam that is dangerous."
Keep repeating that while clicking the heels of your ruby slippers together...and you'll be in Kansastan before you know it.
Here, conquer THIS, raghead!
Love,
Jarhead
That's about 3 - 3/5 times more than any published estimate of total world Muslim population.
Number of Muslims in the world:
Estimates of the total number of Muslims in the world vary greatly:
0.700 billion or more, Barnes & Noble Encyclopedia 1993
0.817 billion, The Universal Almanac (1996)
0.951 billion, The Cambridge Factfinder (1993)
1.100 billion, The World Almanac (1997)
1.200 billion, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic relations)
At a level of 1.2 billion, they represent about 22% of the world's population. They are the second largest religion in the world. Only Christianity is larger, with 33% of the world's inhabitants.
Islam is growing about 2.9% per year. This is faster than the total world population which increases about 2.3% annually. It is thus attracting a progressively larger percentage of the world's population.
U.S. and World Total Population Clocks - POPClocks
Population Clocks
U.S. 298,244,822
World 6,501,749,853
14:14 GMT (EST+5) Mar 06, 2006
The Europeans i.e. the French and the British along with then Soviet Union helped to create the current problem in Iran back in 1979.
Perhaps it would serve the Europeans well to have the problem return and bite them in the proverbial le derrière.
I believe current US policy backs up my assertion.
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