Posted on 10/02/2007 12:51:24 PM PDT by Squidpup
Steven R. Watts is "a global management consultant and a Research Fellow and Intercultural Studies Ph.D. candidate at Fuller Theological Seminary." He is "currently creating risk mitigation strategies for multicultural corporations operating in developing countries. These strategies focus on non-traditional, innovative approaches to sustainable economic development, eradication of poverty and reduction of risk to business continuity in some of the most challenging regions of the world. He is also an invited speaker to universities and business organizations."
His non-traditional, innovative approach at this website, "Welcome to the 21st century" (thanks to Hal), appears to revolve around the emergence of a new dominant world superpower, the "Islamic Union."
Take a look around the website. Look at every page. While those who know how Sharia institutionalizes the oppression of women and non-Muslims may recoil at this prospect, Watts is certainly being a realist given the world situation and the abysmal failure of the West so far to respond to the full reality of the Islamic supremacist challenge in all its dimensions.
I am not saying that the emergence of this superpower is inevitable, or that anyone should ever give up as long as life and breath remain. But while those who are concerned about human rights may not want to see this happen, given the world situation as it stands today can Watts reasonably be faulted for thinking that it will happen, and that the best we can do is try to ride the wave and adapt to the new world order?
~~~Don't taze the messenger, bro.~~~
I can’t help but think about the hallucinogen-inspired moniker from William S. Burroughs’ “A Naked Lunch” - Islam Incorporated - referring to a pervasive, omnipresent threat to freedom.
a clear visual on a well defined target!
BLOAT
OK, I went to the website just to see what it had to offer. The first thing that I saw was a map of the Islamic world which included most of Christian sub-Saharan Africa and Mongolia. I’m surprised Europe isn’t there, too.
I came across this quote:
“The power of the Islamic Superpower will reside primarily in its economic, cultural and theological foundations. The most powerful and compelling distinction of this superpower is that for the first time in the history of the world, a global superpower will not be constrained by nationalistic motives or geographic limitations of artificial borders. This new Islamic Superpower will possess the ability to effectively fight poverty and corruption where the Western powers have failed. It will be the most effective, if not only legitimate response to radical Islamic fundamentalism.”
The Communists had the same thematic premise (minus the theological pretensions, of course). They thought they were the new supranational world movement.
In reality, they were thugs interested in power who killed tens of millions of people.
The biggest laugher here is the claim that Islam will cure poverty and hunger - when those countries already Islamic have immense numbers of poor (when without oil), immense distances between the rich and poor (with oil), and huge numbers of uneducated, illiterate masses (with and without oil). I expect Islam to bring the same kind of problems to the world in this century that the Communists brought to the world in the 20th century.
Their only industry is bomb making.
“”Islam is emerging as the cultural and economic Superpower of the 21st Century.”
Ridiculous. They are the hillbillies of the world. All they have is oil and that is not very much. Was in the Seventies, but not now.
This is the Non-Event of the day and the century. Ain’t happening.
If they do, they are either abjectly ignorant, apologists/propogandists, or they are out and out liars.
In most of those countries a very small, miniscule portion of the population (like in almost any tyranical dictatorship) sits on top of and is benefitting from the labors and putting down the rest of the population.
And in even those countries, those minority leaderships have benefited the most themselves who have invited non-Islamic, particularly western, technology, research, and development into their borders.
Their only industry is bomb making.
...and evil
An urge to oppress doesn’t produce much culture, and an eagerness to destroy doesn’t produce much wealth. So much for Islam as a 21st Century ‘cultural and economic superpower’ — unless, by comparison, there’s nothing else left of the planet but an vast, empty wasteland.
The comments on that site pretty much nail it, IMO.
Dr Benway I presume?
While all this is certainly theoretically possible, I think it’s a lot more likely that some Islamic psychopath will eventually do something so stupid that it will unite the civilized world against them and end up bringing ruin and destruction on their people.
They have more than that...consider the vast naighborhoods they control in Europe, and consider how the Europeans kow-tow to them at every opportunity.
Consider how the President of the United States claims repeatedly how Islam is a Religion of Peace.
Consider how entrenched Multiculturalism is entrenched in the institutions in this nation, and how that philosophy is conducive to the rise of Sharia law.
Dismissing them as sand pounding nomads is ignoring reality (check tagline).
Muslim majority states generally are not developing as fast as other poor countries. Nor has the Muslim world yet succeeded in unifying into a single Caliphate.
LOL wait until (a) Oil runs dry or (b) A feasible substitute is found.. What will the basis of their financial prowess be then?
As long as the West wakes up in time, we can win. Fortunately we’re are hearing some people waking up. If more don’t, however, better brush up on your beheading technique.
This article has got to be the most ridiculous that I’ve seen of late. Superpower? Super as in destruction.
Islam is no more a superpower or even a religion as far as I am concerned. It similar to communish, nazism etc.
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